Encapsulators are cohesive noun phrases that compress the content of discursive segments
of predicative nature. Their persuasive potential has been extensively highlighted in the …

This article presents the findings of a corpus analysis of seven Old French texts to better
understand the syntax of the particle si. It is argued that the texts display clear evidence of …

The goal of the present study is to illustrate the benefits of using a model of discourse units
in describing and explaining the use of polyfunctional discourse markers. Specifically, the …

Despite the vast literature which has accrued on the fine structure of the Romance left
periphery, there exists no diachronic account of the emergence of the considerable …

I argue that the position of the discourse markers in the utterance should be part of the
contrastive analysis on the basis of a corpus case study of then and its Swedish cognate då …

The aim of this paper is to outline the evolution of two adverbs (It. allora and Sp. entonces)
with a common semantic value that have undergone a similar process of (partial) …

High-proficient Swedish users of L2 French and Spanish were compared with native
speakers of French, Spanish and Swedish with regard to how the syntactic peripheries in …

ES Resumen: La segmentación del discurso en unidades sintácticas, informativas o
pragmáticas tiene su origen en el ámbito de los estudios sobre la oralidad espontánea. Sin …

La poncella de Francia, una narración caballeresca breve basada en la vida y hechos de
Juana de Arco, se compuso en la Castilla de las últimas décadas del siglo xv, se imprimió al …

This article presents a contrastive analysis of non-initial positions (less common and,
therefore, marked) of explanatory reformulation markers in written language in English and …