Resumen de Information structure and grammaticalization: Discourse markers and utterance position in Catalan and German
This paper explores the relation between the position of discourse markersand the instructions they provide on the information structure of utterances. Weassume that, next to other types of indications, discourse markers encode during theirgrammaticalization process instructions about the informative status of the discourseconstituents on which they operate and about their relevance for text progression. Ouraim is to account for these indications and show the benefits of using a model of discourse units for the description of markers. For this purpose, we will adopt the Baselmodel for discourse segmentation, which regards text as a pragmatic unit consisting ofhierarchically organized information units. The study concludes that metalinguisticoperations such as reformulation in written language can be better explained on thegrounds of the dynamics governing text construction and organization
