An indispensable prerequisite for obtaining a grasp of the syntactic and semantic roles of particles is to approach them from the construction perspective. The construction method, taking into account both form and content, shows that the clause "če se na glavo postaviš, (ti ne dam)" as a whole reinforces certainty (epistemic modality), and is thus functionally akin to the word class represented by particles or, more precisely, to the modal group of particles. Moreover, the construction method shows that the reinforcement of certainty is due not only to the use of the lexeme če (as the dictionary explanation seems to suggest) but to every element, lexical or grammatical, which forms part of the structure in question.
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