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Preliminary Issues: Category Membership, Methodology, Alternative Perspectives on Discourse Markers

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Discourse Markers and Beyond

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This chapter introduces some of the major issues in discourse marker research, including categorization and criterial features such as multifunctionality, non-propositionality and variable scope. Next, the results of automated and manual annotation of discourse markers are discussed, and theoretical as well as empirical implications are raised. After such preliminary considerations, the outline of the volume is presented in section seven of the introductory chapter.

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Furkó, P.B. (2020). Preliminary Issues: Category Membership, Methodology, Alternative Perspectives on Discourse Markers. In: Discourse Markers and Beyond. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37763-2_1

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