The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English Pathways of Change

246 Two Politeness Parentheticals b. What a medium to work in, for a man tired, perplexed among different aims and subjects, and ...

247 b. but if you want my opinion for what it ’ s worth I’d say she really was cut up about Banks. (1941 Oellrichs, Murder makes ...

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249 is allowed to have broad scope (which is facilitated by sentence- initial pos- ition), and if the referentiality of it is we ...

250 Two Politeness Parentheticals (24) a. Robin, you don’t need anyone. But for what it ’ s worth , I’m your friend. (1969 Susan ...

251 9 What’s More and Whatever 9.1 Introduction This chapter brings to an end the study of ‘what’ begun in Chapter 2. There, I e ...

252 What’s More and Whatever 9.2 What’s More in Present- Day English In the what’s more construction, according to the OED, the ...

253 9.2 What’s More in Present-Day English Academic genres. It is infrequent in both the Spoken and Fiction genres. These result ...

254 What’s More and Whatever When complemented, what is/ ’s/ was more is typically followed by an adjec- tive. For example, in C ...

255 (Poutsma 1917: 971; Curme 1935 : 46; Quirk et al. 1985 : 1112). According to Jespersen , what’s more is “a special kind of c ...

256 What’s More and Whatever Even in their parallel uses (5b– d), the two constructions are not entirely equiva- lent, however. ...

257 9.3 History of What’s More and perfection, doth consist/ In this same change, (1598 Brandon, The tragi- comoedi of the vertu ...

258 What’s More and Whatever b. you are too noble to require that, and what is more , too just (1842 Borrow, The Bible in Spain ...

259 Increasing scope combined with initial position suggests the acquisition of dis- coursal/ pragmatic functions, as what’s mor ...

260 What’s More and Whatever b. the barber hinting that this would be a safe proceeding, because the captain was necessarily a p ...

261 However, in EEBO, parenthetical what is more Adj is most often part of a comparative clause (i.e., what is more Adj than/ th ...

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263 word or phrase; much more rarely it is clause external and has an entire clause within its scope (15f). In the latter case, ...

264 What’s More and Whatever The past- tense form, which was more , as in the case of what was more , is quite rare and does not ...

265 b. therefore it is probable, that he wil reingraffe the Iewes, which is more likely (1618 Parr, A plaine exposition vpon the ...