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Heine, Bernd (2013). On discourse markers: Grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, or something else? Linguistics, 51 (6). S. 1205 - 1248. BERLIN: DE GRUYTER MOUTON. ISSN 1613-396X

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Abstract

Discourse markers have been the subject of a considerable body of recent research. Most commonly, their genesis and development was described in terms of grammaticalization. But there were also alternative approaches to deal with their development, and the term pragmaticalization was proposed to account for features of discourse markers that pose a problem to grammaticalization theory. In the present paper it is argued that neither grammaticalization nor pragmaticalization are entirely satisfactory in the understanding of the nature of discourse markers. On the basis of recent work on Discourse Grammar (Kalten-bock et al. 2011; Heine et al. 2012) it is argued that the rise of discourse markers involves an operation called cooptation, whereby information units such as clauses, phrases, or words are transferred from the domain of sentence grammar to that of discourse organization.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Heine, Bernd UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-473548
DOI:	10.1515/ling-2013-0048
Journal or Publication Title:	Linguistics
Volume:	51
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 1205 - 1248
Date:	2013
Publisher:	DE GRUYTER MOUTON
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	1613-396X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language MODAL PARTICLES; ENGLISH; PARENTHETICALS; WELL Multiple languages Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/47354