DP-Internal Modal Particles: A Case Study of German JA

In this paper, I investigate the DP-internal occurrence of the German modal particle ja. I first demonstrate what kind of attributive configurations seem to prefer the presence of the particle ja inside the DP domain. In this context, I focus on the occurrence of particles within simple-adjective configurations and examine the roles of restrictive and so-called extreme content. I demonstrate that the DP-internal occurrence of modal particles cannot be analyzed analogous to the occurrence of modal particles in other attributive constructions such as certain types of relative clauses. Given this demonstration, I sketch a fine-grained syntactic representation of DP-internal particles, and I point out parallels to the functional makeup of CPs.