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date: 16 October 2019

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This article examines the diachronic relation between grammaticalisation and discourse. It highlights a research which stressed the importance of patterns of argumentation in discourse for the emergence of grammar over time. It discusses discourse strategies resulting in language change and suggests that grammaticalisation is the unintended outcome of those strategies that have scope over a proposition. It also contends that discourse markers are the outcome of those strategies that relate to the coordination of the construction of discourse.

Keywords: grammaticalisation, discourse, diachronic relation, grammar, language change, discourse markers

Richard Waltereit

Richard Waltereit is Reader in French and Romance Linguistics at Newcastle University. He earned his PhD at the Free University of Berlin in 1997. Subsequently he moved to Tübingen and in 2006 to Newcastle. He has published on reanalysis, grammaticalization, and the diachronic rise of discourse markers in French and other Romance languages.

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