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Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctionsEdited by Ritva Laury
[Typological Studies in Language 80] 2008
► pp. 79–97
Edited by Ritva Laury
[Typological Studies in Language 80] 2008
► pp. 79–97
Bulgarian adversative connectives: Conjunctions or discourse markers?
This paper examines three adversative connectives in Bulgarian, /no/, /ama/, and /ami/, all of which correspond to English “but”, and are described as conjunctions, particles, and/or discourse markers. Rather than homonymous lexical items that reflect a binary opposition between conjunctions and discourse markers, these connectives are better conceptualized as operating along a continuum. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of corpora shows that they operate on multiple levels of linguistic structure: syntactic, semantic, and discourse-pragmatic. Systematic correlations are found between the function of connectives and a variety of factors such as initial versus medial position, genre, and register, as well as interactional factors such as politeness and power relations.
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2021. “You turn your back and there’s somebody moving in”. Interactional Linguistics 1:1 ► pp. 64 ff. 
Werner, Valentin
2017. Adversative Pragmatic Markers in Learner Language: A Cross-Sectional Perspective. Corpus Pragmatics 1:2 ► pp. 135 ff.
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