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Argument and rhetoric : adverbial connectors in the history of English /
The book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English. The author analyses different characteristics of the make-up, funct...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
64. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Contents; List of abbreviations; 1. The framework; 2. Clausal connection; 3. The category "adverb"; 4. Adverbs and conjunctions in earlier metalinguistic thought; 5. Connectors in Old English; 6. Adverbial connectors in the history of English; 7. Adverbial connectors: morphology; 8. Cognitive source domains; 9. Shifting deictics in the history of English causal connection; 10. contrast/concession; 11. addition; 12. transition; 13. Perspicuity and the "New Rhetoric"; 14. Conclusions; Backmatter.