A distinción entre conxuncións e conectores discursivos e a súa manifestación fraseolóxica

Resumen

Terminological disputes often contain underlying problems. With this in mind, the aim of this paper is to examine the linguistic and metalinguistic causes of confusion around conjunction categories and discourse connectives –as well as their phrasal counterparts. Such confusion has increased since the latter burst into specialised bibliography. In examining the mentioned causes, both parts of speech are characterised in order to distinguish them and to identify coinciding areas. The opposition between conjunction and discourse connective intersects with that between word and idiom, since many connectives and some conjunctions are in fact idioms. Here lies a key to understand the procedural meaning of these units.