Bayer, Josef2024-04-262024-04-262018-01-01https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/2062The Bangla discourse particle –to and the German discourse particle doch share a number of syntactic and semantic properties. Their phonetic similarity suggests a remote historical relation. While the latter part will only be mentioned and must remain for the specialists in Indo-European reconstruction, the present short study will highlight points of convergence between the two languages with respect to these particles along a series of concrete tests. The convergence appears to be more than accidental.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/Discourse particlesIndo-GermanicIndo-Aryaninterrogativityword orderfunctional headsarticle