Leonor Ruiz Gurillo e-mail(Login required) , M.ª Belén Alvarado Ortega e-mail(Login required)

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Leonor Ruiz Gurillo e-mail(Login required)
M.ª Belén Alvarado Ortega e-mail(Login required)

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This article analyzes the discourse maker desde luego from a phraseological point of view. In peninsular Spanish, it manifests functions such as “underscoring idiom” and routine formula. Such uses are corroborated by the diachronic analysis that, from the Theory of Grammaticalization, demonstrates how it has evolved from an expression of time to an expression of agreement. The phraseological perspective explains the consolidation of idiomatic and fixation properties and provides a focus that can be useful when analyzing other markers which are more complex. 

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Idiom, Routine formula, Grammaticalization

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Leonor Ruiz Gurillo, Universidad de Alicante. Carretera de San Vicente del Raspeig, s/n,

03080 Alicante

M.ª Belén Alvarado Ortega, Universidad de Alicante. Carretera de San Vicente del Raspeig, s/n,

03080 Alicante