This volume brings together sixteen in-depth studies of final particles in various languages of the world, offering a rich variety of approaches to this still r

The Japanese sentence-final particles, ne, yo and yone have proved notoriously difficult to explain and are especially challenging for second language users. Th

This volume brings together sixteen in-depth studies of final particles in various languages of the world, offering a rich variety of approaches to this still r

The linguistic study of Japanese, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and diverse sociohistorical context, is a rapidly

Discourse markers and modal particles are fuzzy linguistic categories that are difficult to describe. The contributions in this volume go beyond this statement.