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Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: New perspectives
Edited by Chiara Fedriani and Andrea Sansó
[Studies in Language Companion Series 186] 2017
► pp. 1–33

Introduction
Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles

What do we know and where do we go from here?

| University of Genoa
| University of Insubria
Article outline
  • 1.Preliminary remarks
  • 2.PMs, DMs, their definitions and delimitations: What do we know?
  • 3.PMs, DMs, their definitions and delimitations: Where do we go from here?
  • 4.The status of modal particles: What do we know and where do we go from here?
  • 5.The diachrony of PMs/DMs: What do we know?
  • 6.The diachrony of PMs/DMs: Where do we go from here?
  • 7.PMs/DMs and sociolinguistic variation: What do we know?
  • 8.PMs/DMs and sociolinguistic variation: Where do we go from here?
  • 9.This volume
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 13 November 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.186.01fed
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