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Outside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents
Edited by Gunther Kaltenböck, Evelien Keizer and Arne Lohmann
[Studies in Language Companion Series 178] 2016
► pp. 243–272

Extra-clausal constituents and language contact

The case of discourse markers

| Universität zu Köln
Extra-clausal constituents as proposed by Dik (1997: 379–407) are linguistic elements that are typically marked off from the clause proper by breaks or pause-like inflections in their prosodic contour, or occur on their own, they can only be understood in terms of pragmatic rules and principles and serve mainly functions such as interaction management, attitude specification, discourse organization and execution. In the framework of Discourse Grammar such constituents are defined as theticals, that is, as belonging to Thetical Grammar rather than to Sentence Grammar (Kaltenböck et al. 2011; Heine et al. 2013).Evidence for a distinction between these two kinds of grammatical organization has more recently been found in neurolinguistic processing (Heine et al. 2014; 2015), and if indeed there is a cognitive base to the disctinction then it should also surface in other forms of human behavior. To this end, the present paper is concerned with the behavior of bilingual speakers. The findings discussed in the paper suggest that Thetical Grammar is clearly the favored domain in bilingual interaction: Interlocutors rely distinctly more on thetical categories such as discourse markers than on categories of Sentence Grammar in linguistic discourse.
Keywords: borrowing, code-switching, cooptation, Discourse Grammar, discourse marker, thetical
Published online: 3 October 2016
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.178.09hei
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