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Informationen zum Autor Chiara Ghezzi is a researcher at the University of Bergamo, where she was previously Adjunct Lecturer in Sociolinguistics and Didactics of the Italian Language. She received her PhD from the University of Pavia with a dissertation entitled 'Vagueness Markers in Contemporary Italian: Intergenerational Variation and Pragmatic Change'. Her research interests include historical pragmatics, the history of old Italian, grammaticalization theory, sociolinguistic variation in contemporary Italian, and discourse and pragmatic markers. Her publications include three articles in Linguistica e Filologia. Piera Molinelli is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Bergamo. She coordinates several Italian national research groups and has organized national and international conferences. Her areas of research include diachronic and historical linguistics, the history of Latin and old Italian, discourse and pragmatic markers, grammaticalization, language contact, and multilingualism. She is the author of Fenomeni della negazione dal latino all'italiano (La Nuova Italia 1988), along with a number of journal articles, and is co-editor of Ars linguistica (Bulzoni 1998), Comunicare nella torre di Babele. Repertori plurilingui in Italia oggi (Carocci 2001), Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface (Benjamins 2013), and Plurilinguismo e diglossia nella Tarda Antichità e nel Medioevo (SISMEL Il Galluzzo 2013). Klappentext This book examines the historical development of discourse and pragmatic markers across the Romance languages. Based on extensive data from several languages, distinguished scholars examine issues relevant to grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, and the interface between grammar and discourse. Zusammenfassung This book examines the historical development of discourse and pragmatic markers across the Romance languages. Based on extensive data from several languages, distinguished scholars examine issues relevant to grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, and the interface between grammar and discourse. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli: Discourse and pragmatic markers from Latin to the Romance languages: New insights 2: Chiara Ghezzi: The development of discourse and pragmatic markers 1 VERBS AS PRAGMATIC MARKERS 3: Maria Iliescu: Call markers in French, Italian, and Romanian 4: Adriana Costachescu: On disagreement markers in French and Romanian dialogue 5: Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli: Deverbal pragmatic markers from Latin to Italian (Lat. quaeso and It. prego): The cyclic nature of functional developments 6: Michaela Livescu: Ma rog: A pragmatic marker in Romanian 7: Salvador Pons Borderia: Paths of grammaticalization in Spanish o sea 2 ADVERBS AS DISCOURSE MARKERS 8: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen: Cyclicity in semantic/pragmatic change: The medieval particle ja between Latin iam and Modern French deja 9: Chiara Fedriani and Emanuele Miola: French deja, Piedmontese Italian gia: A case of contact-induced pragmaticalization 10: Mario Squartini: The pragmaticalization of 'already' in Romance: from discourse grammar to illocution 11: Ana Cristina Macario Lopes: Alias: A contribution to the study of a Portuguese discourse marker 12: Mihaela Popescu: Romanian 'atunci' and French 'alors': Functional and discourse properties 13: Corinne Rossari: How does a concessive value emerge? Conclusion ...
