Open AccessPartikeln in indogermanischen Sprachen
Author(s) -
Rosemarie Lühr
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
linguistik online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1615-3014
DOI - 10.13092/lo.44.408
Subject(s) - subject (documents) , linguistics , personal pronoun , computer science , function (biology) , third person , psychology , philosophy , library science , evolutionary biology , biology
The typical Old Indo-European languages are pro-drop-languages. Therefore, the usage of pronouns for expressing the governing subject does not apply to standard sentences. As to be expected emphasized subject pronouns can then be used in marked situations – especially in the case of a contrastive topic. However, there is a third use that is not as trivial in the first place: The emphasized subject pronouns are supplemented by an additional particle. This third usage has a special function that is supposed to be determined in the following.