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Formal Approaches to Particle Meaning
Author(s) -
McCready Eric
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
language and linguistics compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 44
ISSN - 1749-818X
DOI - 10.1002/lnc3.360
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , german , linguistics , particle (ecology) , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , geology , oceanography
This paper considers the formal analysis of particles. It first defines the notion of particle in question, then looks at particles in English, German and Japanese and some formal analyses that have been proposed for them. Finally, it examines some general questions related to particle meaning involving meaning types and restrictions on distribution.