discourse markers (cxn)

Type construction
http://example.org/cx/hasExample ... all you gotta do is put the outdoor condensing unit, ... and refrigerant piping to that coil. So it ... saves-- ... it saves additional work in the future
Definition a construction that serves a variety of discourse functions, including linking sections of discourse together. Example: in the discourse passage ... all you gotta do is put the outdoor condensing unit, ... and refrigerant piping to that coil. So it ... saves-- ... it saves additional work in the future, the word so is a discourse marker that links the preceding section of discourse to the following section. Discourse markers are not discussed in this book except as sources of conjunctions. (Section 15.1.1)
See section (in Croft 2022) 15.1.1
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The Model of Comparative concepts for Constructicon Alignment (MoCCA; Lorenzi et al. 2024) proposes to connect constructions across and within languages using Comparative Concepts as a shared base of comparison. It adopts the set of Comparative Concepts provided by Croft (2022).

Croft, William. 2022. Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World’s Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/morphosyntax/1AAB4F5F9C553F675170DCA3F03F82E2#contents. (14 October, 2025).
Lorenzi, Arthur, Peter Ljunglöf, Ben Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, William Croft, Alexander Ziem, Nina Böbel, Linnéa Bäckström, Peter Uhrig & Ely E Matos. 2024. MoCCA: A Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons. In Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024, 93–98. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.isa-1.12/. (22 July, 2025).

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