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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140602403321

Autore

Urgelles-Coll Miriam

Titolo

The syntax and semantics of discourse markers / / Miriam Urgelles-Coll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2010

ISBN

1-282-57685-2

9786612576850

1-4411-2605-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in theoretical linguistics

Disciplina

401.41

Soggetti

Discourse markers

Discourse analysis

Sociolinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 3 HPSG and SDRT; 4 Anyway: An Informal Analysis; 5 Anyway: A Formal Analysis; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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