The rise of discourse markers and processes of change
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Prof. Dr. Gunther Kaltenböck, Universität Graz This lecture discusses the diachronic development of discourse markers (e.g. I mean, well; allora, bene) and the specific mechanisms that have been proposed to explain it. Discourse markers are an interesting case in that respect because they exhibit a number of structural characteristics that are hard to reconcile with …