Frontmatter -- Contents -- The status quo of research on discourse particles in syntax and semantics -- The syntax and semantics of discourse particles -- What you see is what you get: Chinese sentence-final particles as head-final complementizers -- The syntax of Swedish modal particles -- Discourse particles and hvað-exclamatives -- Root infinitivals and modal particles. An interim report -- Modal particles ≠ modal particles (= modal particles) -- Discourse particles "embedded": German ja in adjectival phrases -- Combining ja and doch: A case of discourse structural iconicity -- Discourse marker = discourse particle = thetical = modal particle? A futile comparison -- Stressed and unstressed particles in Old Indic -- On the status and the interpretation of the left-peripheral sentence particles inu and ia in Old High German -- Index