A constructional approach to Spanish consecutive discourse markers
Experimental and corpus evidence
- ISBN: 9788447226078
- Editorial: Universidad de Sevilla
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: Sevilla. España
- Colección: Lingüística
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 304
- Idiomas: Inglés
This book explores the synchronic and diachronic relations between a group of Spanish consecutive markers ("por tanto", "por eso", "por ello" and "por esto") and models their similarities and differences by relying on experimental and observational evidence. A usage-based construction grammar approach allows us to map the results of both methods in a constructional network with multiple horizontal and vertical links intended to conceptualize the traditional notion of paradigm in a more dynamic way. Going beyond the grammaticalization framework, procedural meaning, schematicity, compositionality, entrenchment and other constructional relevant parameters of these discourse markers are assessed on the basis of an eye-tracker and a corpus study. The book endorses the benefits of combining empirical methods and usage-based models for the synchronic and diachronic description of discourse markers and their neighboring categories.
