1. Foreword; 2. Introduction; 3. Identical values in conflicting roles: The use of German ausgerechnet, eben, genau and gerade as focus particles; 4. Focusing and background operators (by Stechow, Arnim von); 5. Schon - erst - noch: An integrated analysis (by Lobner, Sebastian); 6. On the semantics of modal particles (by Jacobs, Joachim); 7. 'Wir sind ja doch alte bekannte'. The use of German ja and doch als modal particles (by Lindner, Katrin); 8. Discourse particles in German: How does their illocutive force come about? (by Abraham, Werner); 9. German particles in modular grammar: Neurolinguistic evidence (by Bayer, Josef); 10. The treatment of function words in a new billingual German-English dictionary (by Konig, Ekkehard); 11. Index of names; 12. Subject index; 13. Index of particles and related lexemes
