The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English Pathways of Change
26 Pragmatic Markers: Synchronic and Diachronic Traugott ( 2003b : 127– 128) points to the development of only (see Chapter 4 ) ...
1.5 Processes of Change 27 pragmatic markers. In fact, pragmatic markers provide an interesting test case for understanding a nu ...
28 Pragmatic Markers: Synchronic and Diachronic ability to be modifi ed by adjectives or to pluralize (e.g., indeed , in fact ) ...
1.5 Processes of Change 29 intersubjectifi cation (encoding of meanings focused on the addressee), both of which have been linke ...
30 Pragmatic Markers: Synchronic and Diachronic Thus, there are indeed differences between the development of pragmatic markers ...
1.5 Processes of Change 31 Since the processes pointed to as indicative of lexicalization – fossilization, univerbation, and coa ...
32 Pragmatic Markers: Synchronic and Diachronic the persistence of original lexico- grammatical meaning; subjectifi cation ; sc ...
1.5 Processes of Change 33 (i) Speakers recognize the potential inherent in certain forms for expressing textual and interperson ...
34 Pragmatic Markers: Synchronic and Diachronic example, the pattern of I think parentheticals has extended to other verbs such ...
1.5 Processes of Change 35 discourse- pragmatic dimension, and many aspects of pragmatics, such as topic and focus, have a “gram ...
36 Pragmatic Markers: Synchronic and Diachronic in one language and as pragmaticalization in another (see Degand and Evers- Verm ...
1.6 Contents and Organization 37 (internal decategorialization ), and (partial) loss of morphological and phonetic substance (er ...
38 Pragmatic Markers: Synchronic and Diachronic clauses if I may/ might say so , for what it’s worth , and if only provide a tes ...
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41 2 Old English Hwæt 2.1 Introduction The well- known opening lines of the Old English poem Beowulf begin with a word which ha ...
42 Old English Hwæt given. After reviewing discussions of hwæt as an interjection ( Section 2.2 ), the chapter examines the cont ...
43 2.2 Hwæt as an Interjection Interestingly, Ælfric, in his grammar of Old English, discusses interjec- tions – terming them be ...
44 Old English Hwæt Hiltunen ( 2006 ) begins with the assumption that “the use of interjections is analogous in all periods of E ...
45 2.2 Hwæt as an Interjection In a more fully argued paper, Walkden ( 2013 ) rejects the “interjection hypothesis” – the view ...
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