Discourse markers within sentence grammar: Further evidence from ʕaad in Jordanian Arabic

This article investigates the discourse functions of ʕaad in Jordanian Arabic (JA), based on a naturally occurring corpus which consists of 20 sociolinguistic interviews with 60 participants. Upon analysing all occurrences of ʕaad in the corpus, we propose that ʕaad is a discourse marker that provid...

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Main Authors: Mustafa Harb, Marwan Jarrah, Sharif Alghazo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-01-01
Series:Ampersand
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039022000017