Chapter 4. A corpus-based approach to functional markers in Greek
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Dionysis Goutsos
Abstract
The paper attempts to explore the role of position in Greek by examining how positional preferences for markers correlate with their functions in the language. A large number of these items are investigated in four sub-corpora of academic texts, newspaper opinion articles, Parliament speeches and radio and TV interviews (1 million words in total), drawn from the Corpus of Greek Texts. The findings suggest that items that can be described as discourse and pragmatic markers are attracted by first position, whereas modal markers tend to appear in third position and second position is reserved for grammaticalized items. The corpus-based approach followed seems to offer a useful means of delimiting the broad class of items involved in Greek.
Abstract
The paper attempts to explore the role of position in Greek by examining how positional preferences for markers correlate with their functions in the language. A large number of these items are investigated in four sub-corpora of academic texts, newspaper opinion articles, Parliament speeches and radio and TV interviews (1 million words in total), drawn from the Corpus of Greek Texts. The findings suggest that items that can be described as discourse and pragmatic markers are attracted by first position, whereas modal markers tend to appear in third position and second position is reserved for grammaticalized items. The corpus-based approach followed seems to offer a useful means of delimiting the broad class of items involved in Greek.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface ix
- Introduction. Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles 1
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Part 1. General theoretical questions and quantitative approaches
- Chapter 1. The emergence of Hebrew loydea / loydat (‘I dunno masc/fem ’) from interaction 37
- Chapter 2. Towards a model for discourse marker annotation 71
- Chapter 3. Towards an operational category of discourse markers 99
- Chapter 4. A corpus-based approach to functional markers in Greek 125
- Chapter 5. Discourse markers and discourse relations 151
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Part 2. The status of modal particles
- Chapter 6. Modal particles and Verum focus 171
- Chapter 7. Italian non-canonical negations as modal particles 203
- Chapter 8. A format for the description of German modal particles and their functional equivalents in Croatian and English 229
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Part 3. Language-specific and diachronic studies
- Chapter 9. Vocatives as a source category for pragmatic markers 257
- Chapter 10. Paths of development of English DMs 289
- Chapter 11. Grammaticalization of PMs/DMs/MMs in Japanese 305
- Chapter 12. Dubitative-corrective constructions in Italian 335
- Chapter 13. On the pragmatic expansion of Polish gdzieś tam ‘somewhere (there)/about’ 369
- Chapter 14. A pragmatic approach to Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary 399
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Part 4. Language contact and variation
- Chapter 15. Italian discourse markers and modal particles in contact 417
- Chapter 16. Functional markers in llanito code-switching 439
- Chapter 17. Just a suggestion 459
- Author index 481
- Language index 487
- Subject index 489
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface ix
- Introduction. Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles 1
-
Part 1. General theoretical questions and quantitative approaches
- Chapter 1. The emergence of Hebrew loydea / loydat (‘I dunno masc/fem ’) from interaction 37
- Chapter 2. Towards a model for discourse marker annotation 71
- Chapter 3. Towards an operational category of discourse markers 99
- Chapter 4. A corpus-based approach to functional markers in Greek 125
- Chapter 5. Discourse markers and discourse relations 151
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Part 2. The status of modal particles
- Chapter 6. Modal particles and Verum focus 171
- Chapter 7. Italian non-canonical negations as modal particles 203
- Chapter 8. A format for the description of German modal particles and their functional equivalents in Croatian and English 229
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Part 3. Language-specific and diachronic studies
- Chapter 9. Vocatives as a source category for pragmatic markers 257
- Chapter 10. Paths of development of English DMs 289
- Chapter 11. Grammaticalization of PMs/DMs/MMs in Japanese 305
- Chapter 12. Dubitative-corrective constructions in Italian 335
- Chapter 13. On the pragmatic expansion of Polish gdzieś tam ‘somewhere (there)/about’ 369
- Chapter 14. A pragmatic approach to Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary 399
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Part 4. Language contact and variation
- Chapter 15. Italian discourse markers and modal particles in contact 417
- Chapter 16. Functional markers in llanito code-switching 439
- Chapter 17. Just a suggestion 459
- Author index 481
- Language index 487
- Subject index 489