... explicitly assign such categories. The part of speech of a marker (conjunctive, subordinating conjunction, coordinating con- junction, preposition) determines the possibil- ities of positioning ... detailed studies of individ- ual groups of markers, such as [Vander Linden, Martin 1995] for PURPOSE markers. Besides, the Linguistics literature offers fine-grained analyses of individual ... developing a Discourse Marker LEXicon (DiMLex), which aims at assembling the various information as- sociated with markers and describing it on a uniform level of representation. Our initial...