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In Macedonian, the process of zero derivation is prototypical, inflectional or marginal depending on the presence or absence of changes in the corresponding lexemes, respectively. In the prototypical type of the process, which is subject of this research, when nothing changes in the source and in the target lexeme and, in morphological terms, they are absolutely identical, of all directions; the most productive one is the zero derivation of nouns from verbs. This is due to the fact that Macedonian is a ‘verbal’ la...

Discourse markers are elements of the language that have grammatical-syntactic, conversational-pragmatic and cognitive function. The first function is evident in the different parts of speech used as discourse markers and their position in the context, the second one explains that these elements aim to start and sustain conversation as one of their basic roles, and the last function requires the markers to fill in slots that naturally exist in language, by using the cognitive abilities about which elements would s...