Disjunctive/conjunctive/whatever: the development of Italian barra (‘slash’) as a non-exhaustive connective

The paper investigates the use and functions of barra in Italian. Barra, the lexical realization of the punctuation mark < / >, has recently come to be used also in online settings and in everyday speech. In written, formal contexts, this punctuation mark is mainly used for the expression of a...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Language sciences (Oxford) 2020-09, Vol.81, p.101234, Article 101234
Hauptverfasser:	Fiorentini, Ilaria, Miola, Emanuele
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Barra Computer-mediated communication Grammaticalization Internet Italian Italian language Morphology Non-exhaustive connectives Punctuation Punctuation mark Semantics Written language
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