The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English Pathways of Change

266 What’s More and Whatever evidence suggests that this structure arose concurrently with (or marginally earlier than) the othe ...

267 9.4 Accounting for the Development of What’s More what’s more exhibit syntactic differences: What’s more is always parenthet ...

268 What’s More and Whatever of speaker attitude). The pragmatic/ subjective meanings of the construction involve the convention ...

269 9.5 Whatever in Present-Day English express indifference, indecision, impatience, skepticism, etc.: ‘as you wish’; ‘if you s ...

270 What’s More and Whatever argument where continuation could damage the relationship between partici- pants” (610). In the exa ...

271 In online discussions (see Sheidlower 2009 ; Zwicky 2009 ; Wikipedia :  s.v. whatever (slang); Urban dictionary :  s.v. what ...

272 What’s More and Whatever in the electronic media but also results from changing educational policies, new social agendas, ph ...

273 9.6 Origin and History of Pragmatic Marker Whatever c. Archie Bunker: Say there, Rosemarie. Stephanie: Stephanie. Archie Bun ...

274 What’s More and Whatever Archive, and in Pichler and Levey ’s corpus of northeast English, it is also the third most common ...

275 a three- step sequence set out by Pichler and Levey ( 2010 : 20, 2011 ),^23 proposes that in their fi rst stage, general ext ...

276 What’s More and Whatever f. It tells the world that here is some one gifted far above the normal in the use of that literary ...

277 c. “Well, go ahead, blow your nose? or whatever .” (1945 Lobaugh, She never reached the top [COHA]) d. Listen, Buck, it’s no ...

278 What’s More and Whatever c. HE that affi rmeth Gregory or Griffeth Williams ( or whatever the name of the hobgobling Gr. be, ...

279 9.6.2 A Second- Person Clause of Desire or Saying: Whatever You Please/ Say Synchronically, the pragmatic marker whatever ha ...

280 What’s More and Whatever Whatever you will/ want/ desire appear only in the modern period. We also fi nd explicitly metaling ...

281 c. It’s the same with my family. Whatever you say , they abandoned Haru. (2001 East Asia: An International Quarterly [COCA]) ...

282 What’s More and Whatever or turn closure. A pejorative or negative sense of indifference seems a crucial element in the mean ...

9.7 Conclusion 283 What’s more is a nominal relative clause- type comment clause. It occurs sentence initially in written genres ...

284 10 Concluding Remarks: Pathways of Change 10.1 Introduction In the historical study of pragmatic markers, two major question ...

10.2 Adverbial Sources of Pragmatic Markers 285 rather broad brush, painting over many of the complexities (or “messiness”) of t ...