West flemish verb-based discourse markers and the articulation of the speech act layer

This paper focuses on the West Flemish discourse markers located at the edge of the clause. After a brief survey of the distribution of discourse markers in WF, the paper proposes a syntactic analysis of the discourse markers né and wè. Based on the distribution of these discourse markers, of vocati...

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Published inStudia linguistica Vol. 68; no. 1; pp. 116 - 139
Main Author Haegeman, Liliane
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2014
Blackwell
Subjects
Clauses
Descriptive studies and applied theories
Discourse Markers
Dutch
Grammatical Relations
Grammaticalization
Linguistics
Semantics and pragmatics
Syntactic Analysis
Syntax
Syntax Discourse Relationship
Syntax Pragmatics Interface
Verbs
Speech act
Syntactic analysis
Discourse marker
Discourse analysis
Syntax
Pragmatics
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ISSN0039-3193
1467-9582
DOI10.1111/stul.12023

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Summary:This paper focuses on the West Flemish discourse markers located at the edge of the clause. After a brief survey of the distribution of discourse markers in WF, the paper proposes a syntactic analysis of the discourse markers né and wè. Based on the distribution of these discourse markers, of vocatives and of dislocated DPs, an articulated speech act layer is elaborated which corroborates the proposals in Hill (). It is postulated that there is a syntactic relation between particles used as discourse markers and vocatives. The paper offers further support for the grammaticalization of pragmatic features at the interface between syntax and discourse and for the hypothesis that the relevant computation at the interface is of the same nature as that in Narrow Syntax.
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This paper is partly based on my talk presented at the Workshop on Particles held at the University of Cambridge, October 30-31, 2008. I thank the organizers, Theresa Biberauer and Glenda Newton, for their kind invitation and the audience of the workshop, the audience of my talk at the University of York Linguistics department in April 2009, two independent reviewers for Studia Linguistica and my PhD students, Lieven Danckaert, Karen Declercq, Will Harwood, Rachel Nye and Amélie Rocquet, for feedback. Special thanks to Lobke Aelbrecht and to Lieven Danckaert for comments on a first version of the paper. Thanks to Bernard Declerck, Virginia Hill and Terje Lohndal for very insightful discussion and for judgements thanks to Geert Bonamie, Bernard Declerck, and Katrien Deroey. Needless to say, all aberrations are my own. The work presented here is part of the FWO project 2009-Odysseus-Haegeman-G091409.
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ISSN:0039-3193
1467-9582
DOI:10.1111/stul.12023