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UNINA9910140602403321 |
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Autore |
Urgelles-Coll Miriam |
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Titolo |
The syntax and semantics of discourse markers / / Miriam Urgelles-Coll |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-57685-2 |
9786612576850 |
1-4411-2605-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (179 p.) |
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Collana |
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Continuum studies in theoretical linguistics |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Discourse markers |
Discourse analysis |
Sociolinguistics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-168) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 3 HPSG and SDRT; 4 Anyway: An Informal Analysis; 5 Anyway: A Formal Analysis; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this book, Miriam Urgelles-Col examines the syntax and semantics of discourse markers. A discourse marker can loosely be defined as an item such as well or now , coming at the beginning of an utterance and marking a boundary between one part of spoken discourse and the next, signalling the start of a new section of the discourse. They perform important functions in conversation -- but defining discourse markers is problematic in itself. The syntactic approach employed in this book to describe discourse markers is Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) which is relevant in a theory of |
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