TY - BOOK ID - 15813603 TI - The syntax and semantics of discourse markers PY - 2010 SN - 9781441126054 1441126058 1441195505 9781441195500 9781441172501 1441172505 9781441195043 1441195041 1282576852 9786612576850 9781282576858 6612576855 PB - London : Continuum International Pub. Group, DB - UniCat KW - Discourse markers. KW - Head-driven phrase structure grammar. KW - REFERENCE. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Discoursanalyse. KW - Sociolinguïstiek. KW - Vocabulary. KW - Discourse markers KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Semantics KW - Head-driven phrase structure grammar KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Syntax KW - Reference. KW - Language arts & disciplines KW - Discourse analysis. KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Language and languages KW - Language and society KW - Society and language KW - Sociology of language KW - Discourse grammar KW - Text grammar KW - Discourse connectives KW - Discourse particles KW - Pragmatic markers KW - Pragmatic particles KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects KW - Marqueurs discursifs KW - Grammaire de constituants KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Semiotics KW - Discourse analysis KW - Pragmatics KW - Lexicology. Semantics KW - Grammar KW - Semantics. KW - Syntaxe KW - Sémantique KW - Analyse du discours KW - Syntax. KW - Sémantique. KW - Marqueurs discursifs. KW - Syntaxe. KW - Grammaire de constituants. KW - Analyse du discours. KW - Sémantique. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15813603 AB - 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 ER -