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Publication details [#30072]
Waltereit, Richard. 2002. Imperatives, interruption in conversation, and the rise of discourse markers: A study of Italian guarda. Linguistics 40 (5) : 987–1010. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0024-3949
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper deals with the history of discourse markers, with special reference to the Italian discourse marker 'guarda', that has arisen from the imperative 'guarda!'.