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Title South Slavic discourse particles / edited by Mirjana N. Dedaić ; Mirjana Misković-Luković
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 166 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Pragmatics & beyond new series ; v. 197
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 197
Contents South Slavic discourse particles: Introduction / Mirjana Misković-Luković and Mirjana N. Dedaić -- Ama, a Bulgarian adversative connective / Grace E. Fielder -- Kamo, an attitudinal pragmatic marker of Macedonian / Alexandre Sévigny -- Markers of conceptual adjustment: Serbian bas and kao / Mirjana Misković-Luković -- The Bosnian discourse particle ono / Aida Premilovac -- Reformulating and concluding: The pragmatics of the Croatian discourse marker dakle / Mirjana N. Dedaić -- Pa, a modifier of connectives: an argumentative analysis / Igor Ž. Žagar
Summary Discourse particles, discourse markers and pragmatic markers refer to phenomena that linguists have begun to probe only since the mid-1980s. Long-ignored in traditional linguistics and textbook grammars, and still relegated to marginal status in South Slavic, these linguistic phenomena have emerged as invaluable devices for cutting-edge theories of the semantics/pragmatics interface. This book, which is a pioneering study in such linguistic phenomena in South Slavic languages, is also among the first of its kind for a related group of languages. It builds on the recent findings of some of the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Slavic languages, Southern -- Discourse analysis
Slavic languages, Southern -- Phonology, Comparative
Slavic languages, Southern -- Grammar
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Slavic Languages (Other)
Slavic languages, Southern -- Grammar
Form Electronic book
Author Dedaić, Mirjana N., 1958-
Misković-Luković, Mirjana
LC no. 2010010769
ISBN 9789027288127
9027288127
9027256012
9789027256010
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9781282558496
9786612558498
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