Pragmatic markers and pragmaticalization : lessons from false friends /

In this paper, we investigate the evolution from imperatives to discourse markers in Romance, with a corpus-based approach. We focus on the case of items coming from verbs meaning 'to look', in a semasiological perspective: Spanish and Catalan mira, Portuguese olha, Italian guarda, French...

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Other Authors: Lauwers, Peter, Vanderbauwhede, Gudrun, Verleyen, Stijn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Series:Benjamins current topics ; v. 44.
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