Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction: Final particles from a typological perspective -- II. Discourse Analysis & Conversation Analysis -- 2. Sentence-final adverbials: Recurrent types and usage -- 3. Taking an interactional perspective on final particles: the case of Finnish mutta ('but') -- 4. Final particles in spoken German -- III. Grammaticalization -- 5. Some observations on the evolution of final particles -- 6. The evolution of Japanese toka in utterance-final position -- 7. Two Types of conditionals and Two Different Grammaticalization Paths -- 8. The emergence of utterance-final particles in Korean -- 9. Grammaticalization of final but: from conjunction to final particle -- IV. Cognitive Approaches -- 10. Dutch particles in the right periphery -- 11. A relevance-theoretic perspective on the Norwegian utterance-final particles da and altså compared to their English counterpart then -- 12. The Northern Russian utterance-final particle dak as an information-structuring device -- 13. A study of three particles in Khmer: tɨv, mɔɔk, coh -- V. Generative Approaches -- 14. Particles and Parameters in Wh-Questions -- 15. On sentential particles: A crosslinguistic study -- 16. Circumstantial PPs and the middle field in Japanese -- 17. Word order and the syntax of question particles -- Subject index -- Author index