Contribution to the study of the discourse marker 'claro' in European Portuguese
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The aim of this paper is the characterization of the uses of the discourse marker ‘claro’ in contemporary European Portuguese, based on empirical data collected from the Reference Corpus of Contemporary Portuguese. Two contexts of use were found: (i) reactive interventions, in dialogue, where the marker may function as an emphatic answer to questions or requests, as an expression of agreement or as a filler; (ii) interventions of a single participant, where the marker behaves as an epistemic modal operator. In the last section, a hypothesis on the grammaticalization path of the marker is put forward
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