Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers

Salvador Pons Bordería is Full Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Valencia, Spain. as founding member of the Val.Es.Co. Research Group, his main research interests focus on discourse markers, conversational analysis and grammaticalization studies. Óscar Loureda Lamas is Full Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Vice-President of the University of Heidelberg. He is founder of the DPKog Research Group, one of the leading groups in Experimental Pragmatics with regard to discourse markers. Contributors are: Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga, Ana Llopis Cardona, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Ulrich Detges, Mar Garachana, David Gerards, Paul Gévaudan, Johannes Kabatek, Óscar Loureda, Piera Molinelli, Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, Laura Nadal, Álvaro Octavio de Toledo, Salvador Pons Bordería, Inés Recio.

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1 Introduction
 Salvador Pons Bordería


2 Modeling Language Change with Constructional Networks
 Elizabeth Closs Traugott


3 Cyclic Phenomena in the Evolution of Pragmatic Markers. Examples from Romance
 Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen



4 The Historical Path of eso sí as a Contrastive Connective
 Ana Llopis Cardona



5 Grammaticalization, Distance, Immediacy and Discourse Traditions: The Case of Portuguese caso
 David Gerards and Johannes Kabatek


6 Paragdimaticalization through Formal Ressemblance: A History of the Reinforcer bien in Spanish Discourse Markers
 Álvaro Octavio de Toledo



7 New Challenges to the Theory of Grammaticalization. Evidence from the Rise of no obstante, no contrastante and no embargante
 Mar Garachana



8 The Evolution of Temporal Adverbs into Consecutive Connectives and the Role of Discourse Traditions: The Case of Italian allora and Spanish entonces
 Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga



9 Different Sensitivity to Variation and Change: Italian Pragmatic Marker dai vs. Discourse Marker allora
 Piera Molinelli



10 Insubordination, Abtoenung, and the Next Move in Interaction. Main-Clause-Initial puisque in French
 Ulrich Detges and Paul Gévaudan



11 Paths of Grammaticalization: Beyond the LP/RP Debate
 Salvador Pons Bordería



12 On Argumentative Relations in Spanish: Experimental Evidence on the Grammaticalization of Cause-Consequence Discourse Markers
 Inés Recio (), Laura Nadal and Óscar Loureda



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