NU / NÅ: A Family of Discourse Markers Across the Languages of Europe and Beyond

Published by De Gruyter 2016

NU / NÅ

A Family of Discourse Markers Across the Languages of Europe and Beyond

Edited by: Peter Auer and Yael Maschler

Volume 58 in the series linguae & litterae

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110348989

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About this book

This book, situated within the framework of Comparative Interactional Linguistics, explores a family of fourteen discourse markers across the languages of Europe and beyond (Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, Polish, Romani, Estonian, Finnish, Upper Saxonian and Standard German, Dutch, Icelandic, and Swedish), arguing that they go back to one, possibly two, particles: NU/NÅ.

Each chapter analyzes the use of one of the NU/NÅ family members in a particular language, usually on the basis of conversational data, feeding into a comprehensive chapter on the structure, function, and history of these particles. The approach taken in this volume broadens the functional linguistic concept of ‘structure’ to include the sequential positioning of the particles and their composition, and the concept of ‘function’ to include the conversational actions performed in interaction. Employing conversation analytic methodology thus enables a study of the ways these particles acquire meaning within certain sequential and action environments -- both cross-linguistically and with regard to the grammaticization of the particles. All this sheds light on the borrowing patterns of NU/NÅ across the languages.

With contributions by Peter Auer, Galina B. Bolden, Gonen Dori-Hacohen, Andrea Golato, Harrie Mazeland, Auli Hakulinen, Helga Hilmisdóttir, Leelo Keevallik, Hanna Lehti-Eklund, Anna Lindström, Yael Maschler, Yaron Matras, Gertrud Reershemius, Mirja Saari, Lea Sawicki, Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Heidi Vepsäläinen and Matylda Weidner.

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Peter Auer, Univ. of Freiburg i.Br., Germany; Yael Maschler, Univ. of Haifa, Israel.

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Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
The family of NU and NÅ across the languages of Europe and beyond: Structure, function, and history Peter Auer and Yael Maschler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The discourse marker nu in Russian conversation Galina B. Bolden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
The Polish multifunctional particle no Lea Sawicki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
The particle no in Polish talk-in-interaction Matylda Weidner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Functions of a particle in two European minority languages: Nu/no in Yiddish and Romani Yaron Matras and Gertrud Reershemius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Hebrew nu: Grammaticization of a borrowed particle from synchronic and diachronic perspectives Yael Maschler and Gonen Dori-Hacohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Estonian no(o)(h) in turns and sequences: Families of function Leelo Keevallik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
The Finnish particle no Marja-Leena Sorjonen and Heidi Vepsäläinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
The word ny(t) as an adverb and a particle in Finnish Auli Hakulinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Nu(n) in Standard German: Its functions as a temporal adverbial, as an adverbial structuring discourse, and as a modal particle and discourse marker Andrea Golato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	320
Nu(n) in the Upper Saxonian Vernacular of German Peter Auer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	356
The positionally sensitive workings of the Dutch particle nou Harrie Mazeland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Nú in Icelandic conversation Helga Hilmisdóttir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
Nå in Swedish conversation Anna Lindström Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	442
The Swedish nu: A historical perspective Mirja Saari and Hanna Lehti-Eklund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Linguists
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 511
Keywords: Discourse marker; discourse particle

eBook

Published: October 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110348989

Hardcover

Published: October 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110347234