Aspectos de pragmaticalização de marcadores discursivos no alemão e no português

Abstract

In this article, I discuss the syntactic, semantic and discursive roles of conjunctions as discourse markers in German and Portuguese (wobei, weil  and obwohl; porque and que). I also provide some evidence for the process of grammaticalization/ pragmaticalization in which these markers are involved. This study is part of a broader contrastive-analysis project which aims to investigate the grammaticalization process of  complex sentences in German and Portuguese from a cognitive-discursive perspective.