Ways of expressing modality. German modal particles from a comparative perspective

This special issue of Linguistik Online is devoted to the study of modal particles and other expressions of modality from an interdisciplinary and crosslinguistic perspective, with a special focus on the comparison between German and Italian. The contributions address two broad dimensions: the interdisciplinary study of modal particles, including their grammatical, prag-matic, and multimodal properties, and the crosslinguistic investigation of modality, extending the descriptions and analyses beyond Germanic to Romance languages. Contributions of: Vahram Atayan, Federica Cognola, Marco Coniglio, Marta Massaia, Pierres-Yves Modicom, Manuela Caterina Moroni, Nicola Munaro, Maria Thurmair, Peter Paschke, Andreas Trotzke, Steven Schoonjans,