The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English Pathways of Change

286 Concluding Remarks: Pathways of Change possible to propose this form as the source of the pragmatic uses, especially as the ...

10.3 Clausal Sources of Pragmatic Markers 287 only I missed ) and an ‘exceptive’ sense ‘except that’ (as in I would like to help ...

288 Concluding Remarks: Pathways of Change original main clause is lowered to become parenthetical and the original com- plement ...

10.3 Clausal Sources of Pragmatic Markers 289 the matrix clause hypothesis – is tenuous at best. Rather, Old English contains fi ...

290 Concluding Remarks: Pathways of Change its apodosis clause (the then- clause). Quirk et al. ( 1985 : 1089) refer to such if- ...

10.3 Clausal Sources of Pragmatic Markers 291 Sections 8.2.3 and 8.3.2 explore whether the comment clauses if I may/ might say s ...

292 Concluding Remarks: Pathways of Change the correct way in which to view the rise of all incomplete sentences (cf. also Trous ...

10.3 Clausal Sources of Pragmatic Markers 293 no adjective is “missing” in this case. Thus, there seems to be no historical just ...

294 Concluding Remarks: Pathways of Change comment clauses that/ this (having been/ being) said , and having said that/ this. Le ...

10.5 Envoi 295 manner/ degree adverbial ( admittedly ≠ ‘in an admitted manner’). Therefore, an alternative course of development ...

296 Concluding Remarks: Pathways of Change additional parameters must be added:  general coherence (e.g., speech acts, speaker i ...

10.5 Envoi 297 constructs with verbs of ‘choice,’ whose meaning range from literal to meta- linguistic, the latter especially in ...

298 Appendix: Corpora and Text Collections Corpus or text collection Dates Word count or size (where available) British DOEC Dic ...

Appendix: Corpora and Text Collections 299 Corpus or text collection Dates Word count or size (where available) CLMET3.0 The cor ...

300 PRIMARY SOURCES Print Primary Texts and Concordances Benson , Larry D. (ed.). 1987. The Riverside Chaucer , 3rd edn. Boston, ...

References 301 supervision of Douglas Biber and Edward Finegan at Northern Arizona University and University of Southern Califor ...

302 References EEBO  =  Early English books online. 2003– 2015. Chadwyck- Healey. ProQuest LLC. See http:// eebo.chadwyck.com/ h ...

References 303 Cambridge advanced learner’s dictionary. 2013. Ed. by Colin McIntosh. 4th edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pr ...

304 References Aijmer , Karin and Anne- Marie Simon- Vandenbergen (eds.). 2006. Pragmatic markers in contrast. Amsterdam :  Else ...

References 305 Beeching , Kate. 2016. Pragmatic markers in British English: Meaning in social interaction. Cambridge :  Cambridg ...