International Workshop on Discourse Particles 

University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) 

Vitoria-Gasteiz, October 8th, 2020 

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This workshop aimed to bring together linguists working on discourse or modal particles in any linguistically relevant field (diachrony, semantic-pragmatics, syntax). Studies that look into the role particles play in clause typing, as well as approaches that account for particles expressing evidentiality, epistemicy and modality were presented during this workshop. 

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One of the goals of the workshop was to investigate the syntactic behaviour of such particles, namely their syntactic nature, position and interaction with other constituents. Additionally, this one-day workshop aimed to provide an opportunity to present and discuss the relation between discourse/ modal particles and the formation of utterance meaning; we were particularly concerned with those particles which, apart from occurring in declarative contexts, are also used in questions. 

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Below you will find the abstracts selected for the workshop as well as the handouts or powerpoints presented during the workshop.

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Organizing committee:

• Arantzazu Elordieta (UPV/EHU)

• Xabier Artiagoitia (UPV/EHU)

• Sergio Monforte (UPV/EHU)

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This workshop is part of the project PGC2018-100686-B-I00 Analysis of some functional particles (modal, negative, complementizer) in Basque grammar, funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

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