General extenders (Linguistics)

found: Work cat: Overstreet, M. General extenders, 2021:ECIP galley (General extenders are phrases like 'or something', 'and everything', 'and things (like that), 'and stuff (like that)', and 'and so on'; term "general extender" is used as a linguistic category label for a wide range of expressions with similar positional and compositional features; have a basic structure of conjunction plus noun phrase; are normally syntactically optional constituents that typically occur in phrase- or clause-final position; mostly found in everyday spoken interaction; are best classified as examples of pragmatic markers rather than discourse markers in terms of their syntactic role, though both share the feature of being normally syntactically optional; aka "coordination tags," but that label has not been widely adopted; the linguistic category it describes has clearly become established as part of the English language)

found: "The English general extender", article by Maryann Overstreet, in Cambridge.org/core/journals, viewed on April 23, 2021:(The term 'general extender'; two subcategories: adjunctive general extenders, beginning with and, and disjunctive general extenders, beginning with or; fall within the more general category of pragmatic markers; general extenders widely used in all varieties of English, though not necessarily in the same way; have been studied in other languages, including French, German, Lithuanian, Persian, Spanish, Slovene, and Swedish)

found: Fernández, Julieta. General extender use in spoken Peninsular Spanish, article in Journal of Spanish language teaching 2(1), 2015:(general extenders; routinized chunks of language used for shared pragmatic functions whose interpretation is heavily grounded in local discourse; Spanish GEs have a combination of the conjunctions y or o and either a (vague) noun (e.g., cosas), a pronoun (e.g., eso), or an adverb (e.g., tal))

notfound: Crystal, David. A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics, 2008, viewed online through Credo reference, April 27, 2021.