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Meaning in the history of English : words and texts in context /
This article explores the use of evidentials, or markers of source of information in witness depositions from England in the period 1680-1710. By comparing the results with those from a previous study on the Salem witch trials (Grund 2012), I point to significant similarities in the linguistic forms...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 148. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Uncovering layers of meaning in the history of the English language / Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho
- Layers of reading in the Old English Bede : the case of Oxford Corpus Christi College 279B / Christine Wallis
- Unlikely-looking Old English verb forms / Eric Stanley
- On the importance of noting uncertainty in etymological research : some implications of a re-examination of the etymology of road / Philip Durkin
- "A Wiltshire word, according to Kennett" : the contribution of MS Lansd. 1033 to Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words (1847) / Javier Ruano-García
- Enforcing or effacing useful distinctions? : imply vs. infer / Don Chapman
- The role of context in the meaning specification of cant and slang words in eighteenth-century English / Roxanne But
- Let's talk about uton / Linda van Bergen
- Exploring part-of-speech profiles and authorship attribution in Early Modern medical texts / Jukka Tyrkkö
- The positioning of adverbial clauses in the Paston letters / Yoko Iyeiri
- Complexity and genre conventions : text structure and coordination in Early Modern English proclamations / Anu Lehto
- Formulaic discourse across Early Modern English medical genres : investigating shared lexical bundles / Joanna Kopaczyk
- "Treasure of pore men", "countrymans friend" or "gentlewomans companion"? On the use of interpersonal strategies in the titles of Early Modern English medical texts / Marta Sylwanowicz
- "I saw ye Child burning in ye fire" : evidentiality in Early Modern English witness depositions / Peter Grund.