Discourse markers have been the subject of a considerable body of recent research. Most
commonly, their genesis and development was described in terms of grammaticalization …

Discourse markers exhibit a range of grammatical properties that set them apart from many
other lexical and grammatical forms. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to …

Ways of identifying subjectification and especially intersubjectification are discussed using
data from the history of English no doubt and surely. These adverbs arose out of non-modal …

Discourse markers are a crucial component of natural language, which is why a description
and account of their diachronic evolution must be part of our linguistic models. However …

This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions,
and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization-the development of new …

The field of discourse markers (DMs) studies suffers from lack of consensus on the limits and
definition of the category. There seems to be a crucial need for onomasiological studies that …

This chapter deals with person deixis, undoubtedly the phenomenon that is most
spontaneously associated with discourse participant profiling. I will first discuss the general …

Der Aufsatz beschreibt Grundlinien der Diskursmarkerforschung von ihren Anfängen bis in
die Mitte der 2010er Jahre. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf einer fachgeschichtlichen und …

Studies in historical pragmatics have increased noticeably during the last twenty years, and
the use of discourse markers in past periods of the English language has emerged as an …

This book is a contribution to the growing field of historical cognitive linguistics, in particular
historical constructionalist pragmatics. Cognitive linguistics is a perspective on the study of …