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

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

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

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

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783110347234
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 10/24/2016
Series: linguae & litterae , #58
Pages: 517
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

The family of NU and NÅ across the languages of Europe and beyond: Structure, function, and history Peter Auer Yael Maschler 1

The discourse marker nu in Russian conversation Galina B. Bolden 48

The Polish multifunctional particle no Lea Sawicki 81

The particle no in Polish talk-in-interaction Matylda Weidner 104

Functions of a particle in two European minority languages: Nu/no in Yiddish and Romani Yaron Matras Gertrud Reershemius 132

Hebrew nu: Grammaticization of a borrowed particle from synchronic and diachronic perspectives Yael Maschler Gonen Dori-Hacohen 162

Estonian no(o)(h) in turns and sequences: Families of function Leelo Keevallik 213

The Finnish particle no Marja-Leena Sorjonen Heidi Vepsäläinen 243

The word ny(t) as an adverb and a particle in Finnish Auli Hakulinen 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 320

Nu(n) in the Upper Saxonian Vernacular of German Peter Auer 356

The positionally sensitive workings of the Dutch particle nou Harrie Mazeland 377

Nú in Icelandic conversation Helga Hilmisdóttir 409

Nå in Swedish conversation Anna Lindström 442

The Swedish nu: A historical perspective Mirja Saari Hanna Lehti-Eklund 465

Index 505

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