The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English Pathways of Change
166 Epistemic Parentheticals (epistemic/ evidential) and intersubjective (interactive, politeness) meanings. (see Traugott and D ...
5.7 Conclusion 167 be hard to quantify – and on the fact that epistemic parentheticals are by nature subjective and hence do not ...
168 6 I/ Y ou Admit and Admittedly 6.1 Introduction Admit is a “relatively common” speech act verb, occurring with a that - clau ...
169 6.2 Admit in Present- Day English d. The cheap article, I will admit , ministers to a certain grade of intellect (1996 Ameri ...
170 I/You Admit and Admittedly it contradicts some aspect of the speaker’s position (Leech 1983 : 105– 106). Grouping admit with ...
171 6.2.3 I/ You Admit as a Comment Clause In addition to its performative use, I/ you admit can occur parenthetically (see exam ...
172 I/You Admit and Admittedly in all cases, although American English uses it somewhat more often with the fi rst person. Table ...
173 6.3 Admittedly in Present- Day English punctuation. While punctuation is an unreliable criterion for determining par- enthet ...
174 I/You Admit and Admittedly Greenbaum ( 1969 : 94) classifi es admittedly as a content (or attitudinal) dis- junct, which exp ...
175 6.4 Synchronic Correspondences Looking at corpus frequencies (see Table 6.4 ), we see that admittedly is much more common i ...
176 I/You Admit and Admittedly (5) (see Greenbaum 1969 : 95, 225; Quirk et al. 1985 : 623; Swan 1988a : 9– 10, 1991 : 420– 421): ...
6.5 Postulated Developments 177 I tell you frankly that I don’t trust Bill > Frankly, I don’t trust Bill. The disjunct adverb ...
178 I/You Admit and Admittedly (b) already independent clauses, e.g., I know, apples he likes. These are infl uenced later by ma ...
6.6 Historical Evidence 179 6.6 Historical Evidence for the Rise of I/ Y ou Admit and Admittedly The verb admit was borrowed fro ...
180 I/You Admit and Admittedly b. But suffer thou ... that the lawe and the feith which thi chirche at eny tyme kepith be receiv ...
6.6 Historical Evidence 181 b. I admit the Northwest point standeth due North, and my course is to go due West, (1574 Bourne, A ...
182 I/You Admit and Admittedly c. You must admit, that notwithstanding our most humble petition in behalf of our just claims, yo ...
6.6 Historical Evidence 183 D’Lisle, I will admit , is not a fair representative of that famous order who pio- neered the way on ...
184 I/You Admit and Admittedly to fi nd, in addition to truth intensifi ers ( indeed , surely ), high- and low- probabil- ity lo ...
6.6 Historical Evidence 185 d. but they are admittedly too expensive to be of any service to the poor (1890 Booth, In darkest En ...
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