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In:Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries
Edited by Daniël Van Olmen and Jolanta Šinkūnienė
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 325] 2021
► pp. 171–198

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Chapter 6
Interactions between distribution and functional uses in Italian adversative pragmatic markers

A corpus-based and multilevel approach

ORCiD logo with link | University of Salerno
Published online: 13 October 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.325.06cim
Abstract
This chapter describes the interaction between distribution and functional uses of the Italian Adversative Pragmatic Markers (APMs) ma and però in spontaneous spoken language. These forms are claimed to be distributionally and functionally asymmetrical, as ma preferentially occurs in the left periphery, performing a turn-taking function, while only però can appear in the right periphery, with a cohesive function. Results from a semasiological (form-to-function), corpus-based and multi-level (prosodic, information and functional) investigation show that APM asymmetry is not clear-cut. Although the multi-level description supports Beeching and Detges’s (2014) function-periphery asymmetry hypothesis as a general tendency, it also argues in favor of a more fine-grained functional analysis.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Corpus and theoretical framework
    • 2.1DB-IPIC: A multilingual spoken language resource
    • 2.2The Language into Act Theory
    • 2.3Identifying the peripheries within the Language into act theory
  • 3.Ma and però at the peripheries: Distribution and information status
    • 3.1Distribution of ma and però in DB-IPIC
    • 3.2Information status of peripheral ma and però in DB-IPIC
      • 3.2.1Left periphery
      • 3.2.2Right periphery
  • 4.Functions of ma and però in the left and right peripheries
    • 4.1Ma in the left periphery
    • 4.2Però in the left periphery
    • 4.3Right periphery
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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