The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English Pathways of Change
106 Modern English Only and If Only ‘Only the intellect, without more, that dwelled in his heart sick and sore, began to fail wh ...
107 4.3 Development of Only necessary discourse task: “Several of the narrator’s adversatives occur appar- ently in reaction to ...
108 Modern English Only and If Only l. Volumnia: I have lived/ To see inherited my very wishes,/ And the buildings of my fancy. ...
109 4.3 Development of Only adversative only. Of 314 instances of only in the EModE section of the HC, 33 are clause initial, wi ...
110 Modern English Only and If Only 4.3.2 Grammaticalization What do we make of the development of only in terms of processes of ...
111 4.3 Development of Only Nevalainen (1990: 350, 1991 : 17) suggests that the ‘exceptive’ functions of only are an analogic ...
112 Modern English Only and If Only straightforward semantic shift, I leave the ‘exceptive’ sense of only out of the picture of ...
113 4.3 Development of Only denoting relations within the communicative process (as discussed earlier). In fact, Nevalainen ( 19 ...
114 Modern English Only and If Only focused item but to the entire proposition. It is signifi cant that one of the three earlies ...
115 4.4 If Only b. If only she would admit her so- called crimes, they would let her go. (2010 Harper’s Bazaar [COCA]) c. If onl ...
116 Modern English Only and If Only This usage has variously been called a subordinate clause functioning as an “irregular sente ...
117 directive function (e.g., If you’d like to get dressed now. [spoken by a doctor to a patient]) or an optative function (e.g. ...
118 Modern English Only and If Only (24) a. Maybe it’s the ghosts trying to get rid of you,” Joe suggested. A couple dashed ins ...
119 I’ll ever give you any money! ), which can be accounted for only by ellipsis of a negative matrix clause ( You don’t believe ...
120 Modern English Only and If Only there is no diachronic evidence for the reconstruction: There is only synchronic evidence (§ ...
121 (26) a. “ If only they would return too. Yes! That would be a glorious end to the struggle you have made, if you can bring t ...
122 Modern English Only and If Only b. As Buffy moved on, she had an image of her mother, waiting up like she was on a date or s ...
4.5 Conclusion 123 Unlike other conjunctions, such as but , because , or so , which have acquired even clearer uses as freestand ...
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