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The aim of this paper is the evolution of the discourse marker comme qui dirait from old French to contemporary French. At the beginning, the marker has the sense of a hypothetical comparative si comme l’en diroit / comme + qui + diroit meaning comme si l’on disait. In a second stage, the marker becomes a reformulative marker meaning c'est-à-dire. Finally, in a third stage, it becomes a polyphonic attenuator marker.
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This page is a summary of: The evolution of the marker comme qui dirait ‘as one would say’ in French, Belgian Journal of Linguistics, December 2015, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/bjl.29.07gom.
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