Romanische Seminare der Universitäten Bochum und Freiburg
Abstract
Summary: This paper analyses Sp. (and so/ and so forth) as an interactive construction within the Construction Grammar framework (CxG) (Gras, 2011). does not function like the discourse marker and the deictic : it is not possible to describe it as a formula derived from their union. Further descriptions are thus needed. In order to prove this idea, the Val.Es.Co. units and positions segmentation model has been applied in a systematic way to the different prosodic, syntactic and semantic features attached to the five functions of . This combination of units, positions and features explains differences between and the original forms from which it evolved. This systematic synchronic analysis should be completed with a diachronic treatment explaining how developed its compositional path and its relationship with other similar constructions. Keywords: Val.Es.Co., discourse segmentation, discourse markers, constructions, Construction Gramma
