The aim of our study is to propose a classification of discourse markers (MD), then to identify and apply a series of criteria that will serve to establish a paradigm of these markers. We will illustrate our study by means of forms of the verb voir ‹to see›: tu vois, vous voyez, voyons, voilà. The novelty of our analysis is to try to establish a paradigm of MD, paradigm in a broad sense (Heltoft 1996; Nørgård-Sørensen, Heltoft & Schøsler 2011), and not in the more restricted sense (Lehmann 1985; Waltereit 2002).