1. Preface; 2. What do we know and where do we go from here? (by Fedriani, Chiara); 3. Part 1. General theoretical questions and quantitative approaches; 4. The emergence of Hebrew loydea / loydat ('I dunno MASC/FEM') from interaction: Blurring the boundaries between discourse marker, pragmatic marker, and modal particle (by Maschler, Yael); 5. Towards a model for discourse marker annotation: From potential to feature-based discourse markers (by Bolly, Catherine); 6. Towards an operational category of discourse markers: A definition and its model (by Crible, Ludivine); 7. A corpus-based approach to functional markers in Greek: Exploring the role of position (by Goutsos, Dionysis); 8. Discourse markers and discourse relations: The French DM quoi (by Costachescu, Adriana); 9. Part 2. The status of modal particles; 10. Modal particles and Verum focus: New corollaries (by Abraham, Werner); 11. Italian non-canonical negations as modal particles: Information state, polarity and mirativity (by Squartini, Mario); 12. A format for the description of German modal particles and their functional equivalents in Croatian and English (by Kresic, Marijana); 13. Part 3. Language-specific and diachronic studies; 14. Vocatives as a source category for pragmatic markers: From deixis to discourse marking via affectivity (by Kleinknecht, Friederike); 15. Paths of development of English DMs: (Inter)subjectification, deontic reversal and other stories (by Mazzon, Gabriella); 16. Grammaticalization of PM/DM/MM in Japanese (by Shinzato, Rumiko); 17. Dubitative-corrective constructions in Italian (by Giacalone Ramat, Anna); 18. On the pragmatic expansion of Polish gdzies tam 'somewhere there' (by Adamczyk, Magdalena); 19. Part 4. Language contact and variation; 20. A pragmatic approach to Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary: Discourse markers in focus (by Giuliani, Stephan); 21. Italian discourse markers and modal particles in contact (by Fiorentini, Ilaria); 22. Functional markers in llanito code-switching: Regular patterns in Gibraltar's bilingual speech (by Goria, Eugenio); 23. Just a suggestion: just/e in French and English (by Beeching, Kate)