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On the rise of discourse markers

2021
Abstract Discourse markers exhibit a range of grammatical properties that set them apart from many other lexical and grammatical forms. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to account for these properties. Most commonly, such
Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva, Haiping Long   +3 more
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Acquiring the meaning of discourse markers

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL '04, 2004
This paper applies machine learning techniques to acquiring aspects of the meaning of discourse markers. Three subtasks of acquiring the meaning of a discourse marker are considered: learning its polarity, veridicality, and type (i.e. causal, temporal or additive). Accuracy of over 90% is achieved for all three tasks, well above the baselines.
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Discourse Markers in Oral Narrative

Journal of Pragmatics, 2001
This chapter seeks to demonstrate that well and but function as a special sort of discourse marker (DM) in oral narratives, and that their functions within the oral narrative context follow neither from their usual meanings nor from their usual DM functions in other contexts.
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Preface to: Discourse markers

Discourse Processes, 1997
Spooren, W., Risselada, R.
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The polysemy of discourse markers: The case of pronto in Portuguese

Journal of Pragmatics, 2006
The aim of this paper is to analyze the meanings and functions of the Portuguese discourse marker pronto, using an oral corpus. The functional polysemy of this lexical item, which is usually viewed rather pejoratively as a mere filler, has resulted from a recent process of grammaticalization of the adjective pronto ('ready, quick'), with the meanings ...
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Discourse Structuring Markers, including Discourse Markers

2022
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An Account of Discourse Markers

International Review of Pragmatics, 2009
AbstractDiscourse Markers (DMs) have been a topic of research for 30 years under many different names. The present paper presents an account of one view of DMs with the aim of providing researchers in the field with a coherent definition of DMs and a presentation of the syntactic and semantic properties of this functional category that will enable them
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Are discourse markers related to age and educational background? A comparative account between two sign languages

Journal of Pragmatics, 2020
Silvia Gabarró-López
exaly  

Discourse Markers.

Man, 1988
Cynthia McLemore, Deborah Schiffrin
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Unpacking the function(s) of discourse markers in academic spoken English: a corpus-based study

The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2022
Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani
exaly