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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-31 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
This volume brings together five papers offering cross-linguistic analyses of pragmatic markers involving modality, supplemented by three book reviews on the sa
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Pages: 167
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
In this paper, we investigate the evolution from imperatives to discourse markers in Romance, with a corpus-based approach. We focus on the case of items coming
Language: en
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-02 - Publisher: BRILL
The studies collected in this volume deal with pragmatic factors involved in the evolution of grammatical or lexical forms or in the emergence of complex syntac
Language: en
Pages: 318
Pages: 318
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
This book examines the historical development of discourse and pragmatic markers across the Romance languages. Based on extensive data from several languages, d
