Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORY -- RELATIONS -- RELATORS: APPROACHES TO PARTICLES -- A FRAMEWORK FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF CONNECTIVE PARTICLES -- HEURISTICS -- DESCRIPTION -- CAUSAL RELATIONS AND CAUSAL CONNECTIVES: CONVENTIONAL ACCOUNTS OF NAM AND ENIM IN THE LITERATURE -- NAM -- ENIM -- ADVERSATIVE RELATIONS AND ADVERSATIVE CONNECTIVES: CONVENTIONAL ACCOUNTS OF AUTEM, VERO AND AT -- AUTEM -- VERO -- AT -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF TERMS -- INDEX OF CRITICALLY DISCUSSED PASSAGES -- INDEX OF LATIN WORDS.

Due to their extremely elusive nature, particles have long been treated in a stepmotherly way, in grammars of individual languages as well as in theories of language. This study is representative of the recent upsurge of interest in particles, more particularly in particles with a discourse marking function. By offering a detailed account of a number of Latin discourse particles, the study provides more insight into a vitually neglected area of Latin. At the same time it contributes to the theoretical and methodological foundations of current particle research and, more generally, to the development of linguistic models of discourse.

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