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Focus particles such as  auch  “also”,  nur  “only” and  sogar  “even” form a closed word class and do not occur as immediate constituents in German. They usually have to adjoin to an associated focus constituent and are even occasionally referred to as function words. It is quite surprising that the focus particle  ausgerechnet  “of all X” ( Peter kommt ausgerechnet heute  “Peter is coming today of all days”) also occurs as an independent utterance as in  Peter kommt heute. Ausgerechnet!  “Peter is coming today. Of all days!”. The article describes this little studied (colloquial) use of  ausgerechnet . It presents a detailed analysis of the focus particle  ausgerechnet  showing that it is an expressive item in the sense of Christopher Potts. The expressive semantics motivates its use as an utterance in analogy to exclamations with expressives such as the interjection  Donnerwetter!  “Oh dear!” or the adjective  Toll!  “great”. The analysis is presented in a construction-based framework and illustrates the need to integrate core and peripheral grammatical phenomena.

Focus particles as utterances – the case of German ausgerechnet!