Markörersåsom

Markörersåsom is a term used in linguistic analysis to designate the class of discourse markers that introduce exemplification within a clause. The word is a compound of markörer (discourse markers) and såsom (such as). In use, markörer såsom often appears in linguistic descriptions as a label for markers that introduce examples or illustrate a point. It is generally not treated as a fixed syntactic category in itself; rather, it denotes a functional group of expressions that perform exemplification or specification within discourse. The category typically includes items such as såsom, till exempel, det vill säga, and other exemplifying or clarifying devices that help specify the set under discussion. The distinction from other discourse markers lies in its focus on introducing examples rather than signaling discourse relations like contrast, sequencing, or summary.

In practice, markörer såsom are encountered primarily in Scandinavian linguistic literature and corpus annotations. The term is not widely standardized and may function more as a descriptive label within a dataset than as a universally accepted grammatical class. When encountered in texts, it is advisable to interpret it as an annotation cue indicating that the following material illustrates the kinds of markers being discussed rather than as an independent lexical item.

See also: discourse marker, exemplification, Swedish linguistics, corpus annotation