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Mohammadi, Ariana N. 2019. Meaning potentials and discourse markers: The case of focus management markers in Persian. Lingua 229 : 102706.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Evidence from three discourse markers in Iranian Persian indicates that shared meaning potentials in lexical elements lead to similar discourse and pragmatic functions in emergent discourse markers. This inquiry takes a corpus-based discourse analysis approach to provide an overview of a class of discourse markers that primarily take part in the information structure of Persian and function as focus management markers.