English discourse particles : evidence from a corpus /
There are few aspects of language which are more problematic than its discourse particles. The present study of discourse particles draws upon data from the London-Lund Corpus to show how the methods and tools of corpora can sharpen their description. The first part of the book provides a picture of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2002.
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Colección: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 10. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | There are few aspects of language which are more problematic than its discourse particles. The present study of discourse particles draws upon data from the London-Lund Corpus to show how the methods and tools of corpora can sharpen their description. The first part of the book provides a picture of the state of the art in discourse particle studies and introduces the theory and methodology for the analysis in the second part of the book. Discourse particles are analysed as elements which have been grammaticalised and as a result have certain properties and uses. The importance of linguistic a. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-290) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 1588112845 9781588112842 9789027297358 9027297355 1282161849 9781282161849 9786612161841 6612161841 |
ISSN: | 1388-0373 ; |