The present volume is dedicated to the phenomenon of pragmaticalization in the context of the theory of grammaticalization. While, in recent decades, the growin

In this paper, we investigate the evolution from imperatives to discourse markers in Romance, with a corpus-based approach. We focus on the case of items coming

This pioneering study highlights the importance in linguistic communication of discourse markers, a previously neglected area of research.

The articles in this volume examine a number of critical issues in grammaticalization studies, including the relationship between grammaticalization and pragmat

A collection of papers on discourse markers in different languages, presented at the fifth conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Me×ico, in t