Particles: presupposition triggers or context markers
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This paper discusses two possible formal approaches to the semantic/pragmatic particles of a subclass of the modal particles. It may well be that the approaches can be applied to other particles or that they can be applied to certain intonational patterns (e.g. contrastive stress), to morphemes (past tense, agreement) or to words (pronouns), constructions (some uses of definite descriptions, clefts), but I will not try to to show that here.
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