Generally, tatschlich is called a modal word (Helbig 1990; Eroms 2000), a sentence adverbial (Bartsch 1972), a sentence adverb (Thurmair 1989; Eroms 2000), or an adjective (Engel 1996). Exceptionally, the term modal particle (Ballweg 2009) is used in the literature. However, the fact...