Formal Approaches to Particle Meaning

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.

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