Chapter published in:
Pragmatic Markers and PeripheriesEdited by Daniël Van Olmen and Jolanta Šinkūnienė
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 325] 2021
► pp. 49–74
Chapter 2Dutch pragmatic markers in the left periphery
Ton van der Wouden | Meertens Instituut
Ad Foolen | Radboud Universiteit
This chapter explores the left periphery of Dutch
utterances. Four positions hosting pragmatic markers (PMs) are
distinguished: the first sentence position (P1), a position
following P1 and two positions respectively preceding and following
a left dislocated constituent. We hypothesize that there are
correlations between these positions and pragmatic functions like
discourse coherence, subjectivity and intersubjectivity. A short
look is taken at asyndetic clusters of pragmatic markers in the left
periphery, we also assume functional motivations for the
linear ordering of PMs in the cluster. The goal of the chapter is
primarily descriptive, inspired by functionally oriented frameworks,
in particular Construction Grammar, Functional Discourse Grammar and
Interactional Linguistics. The illustrative data are mainly taken
from CGN, the corpus of spoken Dutch.
Keywords: Dutch, left periphery, pragmatic marker, pragmatic function, particle cluster
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.An inventory of Dutch pragmatic markers
- 3.Positions for PMs in the left periphery
- 3.1A first sketch of Dutch sentence structure
- 3.2Pragmatic markers in P1
- 3.3Post-P1 pragmatic markers
- 3.4PMs to the right and left of left dislocated constituents
- 4.Functions of PMs in the left periphery
- 4.1Functional classifications
- 4.2PMs in P1 vs. Pre-P1
- 4.3PMs after P1 constituents
- 4.4PMs after left dislocated constituents
- 4.5A short functional look at PMs in the middle field
- 5.PM clustering in the left periphery
- 6.Discussion and conclusion
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Acknowledgements -
Notes -
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Published online: 13 October 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.325.02van
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.325.02van
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