AvH IRLG Project F010416

A functional and cognitive study of discourse markers

By adopting a functional-cognitive approach, this project investigates crucial aspects of discourse markers in Persian, against the background of a number of other languages, e.g. English, German, French, Bulgarian, Korean, Japanese.

Based on a series of recent works on Discourse Grammar, the goal of this project is to elaborate a theoretical framework for the rise of discourse markers in genetically and geographically related and unrelated languages.

Principal Co-Investigators

Prof. Dr. em. Bernd Heine (University of Cologne, Germany)

Prof. Dr. Tania Kouteva-Kuteva (University of Düsseldorf, Germany/SOAS, University of London, UK)

Prof. Dr. Mohammad Amouzadeh-Mahdiraji (University of Isfahan, Iran)

Funding Period: 2017 – 2022