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This chapter presents the main corpus findings in relation to the annotation grid. This short chapter successively examines the results obtained for the different levels of analysis: semantic-pragmatic, syntactic and collocational. The overall results show that the four DMs have one pragmatic function in common—metalinguistic comment—which is not surprising for DMs of saying. Despite this common feature, many divergences appear: first, some of the DMs have developed other functions; second, the four DMs do not rely on the same type of commitment and exhibit dissimilar syntactic and collocational features.
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Lansari, L. (2020). Overview of the Corpus Findings. In: A Contrastive View of Discourse Markers. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24896-3_3
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