Linguistic Studies and Essays

Vol. 63 No. 2 (2025): Percorsi di sviluppo e interazione tra categorie nella pragmatica storica dell'italiano. A cura di Chiara Fedriani e Maria Napoli
Articles

Paths of grammaticalisation and development of the pragmatic functions of general extenders: A diachronic study of e tutto il resto 'and all the rest' and e cose del genere 'and things like that'

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  • Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga
Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4454/ssl.v63i2.439

Published 2025-10-10

Keywords

  • grammaticalizzazione,
  • general extenders,
  • funzioni pragmatiche,
  • sviluppo diacronico
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Abstract

General extenders are the result of grammaticalisation processes that have many similarities with those observed in discourse markers. After briefly presenting some of the most frequent phonic, syntactic and semantic phenomena in these processes, the configuration of e tutto il resto ‘and everything else’ as a general extender will be explained through the analysis of texts from the 15h C to the 20th C . Finally, we highlight the difficulties of studying these structures from a historical perspective due to the absence of data that could allow us to formulate solid hypotheses, as is the case with e cose del genere ‘and things like that’.

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