The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English Pathways of Change

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i The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English Based on a rich set of historical data, this book traces the development of prag ...

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iii The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English Pathways of Change Laurel J. Brinton University of British Columbia ...

iv University Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10006, USA 477 Willi ...

v Contents List of Figures page viii List of Tables ix Preface xi ...

vi Contents ...

Contents vii ...

viii 1 Pragmatic Markers: Synchronic and Diachronic List of Abbreviations xiii 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Pragmatic Markers: Definiti ...

ix Tables 1.1 Characteristics of pragmatic markers page 9 3.1 The development of while (Traugott) 77 4.1 Earliest conjunctive an ...

x List of Tables x 7.4 Frequency of I am/ ’m just sayin(g) and I was just saying in a variety of historical corpora 214 7.5 Freq ...

xi Preface This book has provided me with the opportunity to revisit and rethink much of my work on pragmatic markers in the his ...

xii Preface xii Sections 4.1– 4.3 were originally published as “ ‘The flowers are lovely; only they have no scent’: The evolutio ...

xiii Abbreviations a [date of composition] Adj adjective AdjP adjective phrase Adv adverb AdvP adverb phrase BT An Anglo- Saxon ...

xiv List of Abbreviations xiv Corpora and Text Collections For further information, see References and Appendix. AA Accessible a ...

1 1 Pragmatic Markers :  Synchronic and Diachronic 1.1 Introduction Following work in discourse analysis in the late 1970s and 1 ...

2 Pragmatic Markers: Synchronic and Diachronic ‘I am young and ignorant, as you know / And, as I suppose , most injured by love/ ...

1.2 Defi nition and Functions 3 to the label to be used for these forms. Dér ( 2010 : 5– 10) identifi es forty- two different te ...

4 Pragmatic Markers: Synchronic and Diachronic While “high frequency” is undefi ned here, the frequency of pragmatic markers in ...

1.2 Defi nition and Functions 5 view would appear to be that pragmatic markers  – or at least “proto- typical” ones  – often do ...