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Heine, Bernd and Kaltenboeck, Gunther (2021). From clause to discourse marker: on the development of comment clauses. Lang. Sci., 87. OXFORD: ELSEVIER SCI LTD. ISSN 1873-5746

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Abstract

This paper proposes an alternative account for the development of comment clauses (e.g. I think, I mean, I admit), which differs from previous accounts centring on grammaticali-zation, pragmaticalization, or lexicalization. Based on the framework of Discourse Grammar and building on Heine et al. (2021a, b), it is argued that their development in-volves a stage of cooptation, whereby a text piece is transferred from the sentence level to the metatextual level of discourse processing thus acquiring new grammatical properties, viz. independence from the host clause in terms of meaning, syntax and prosody, meta-textual function, and positional freedom. All these changes are hard to reconcile with grammaticalization. At the same time, however, grammaticalization does play a role in the process once cooptation has taken place, affecting mainly the internal form of coopted expressions. (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Heine, Bernd UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kaltenboeck, Gunther UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-570933
DOI:	10.1016/j.langsci.2021.101400
Journal or Publication Title:	Lang. Sci.
Volume:	87
Date:	2021
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Place of Publication:	OXFORD
ISSN:	1873-5746
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language GRAMMATICALIZATION; COMPLEMENT; PRAGMATICALIZATION; CONVERSATION; ENGLISH Multiple languages Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57093