This book elucidates the nature of the semantics / pragmatics distinction in both synchrony and diachrony and proposes a definition of semantics and pragmatics

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Focus particles (words such as even, only, also) play an important role in English, in various syntactic and semantic domains, but their characteristics pose nu

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"Shedding new light on the constructive and expressive role of particles in natural language syntax and semantics, this book demonstrates that particle behaviou