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The comment clause in English : syntactic origins and pragmatic development /
"Although English comment clauses such as I think and you know have been widely studied, this book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment, focusing on comment clauses formed with common verbs of perception and cognition in a variety of syntactic forms. It understands comment cla...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Studies in English language.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Although English comment clauses such as I think and you know have been widely studied, this book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment, focusing on comment clauses formed with common verbs of perception and cognition in a variety of syntactic forms. It understands comment clauses as causal pragmatic markers that undergo grammaticalization, and acquire pragmatic and politeness functions and subjective and intersubjective meanings. To date, the prevailing view of their syntactic development, which is extrapolated from synchronic studies, is that they originate in matrix clauses which become systematically indeterminate and are reanalyzed as parenthetical. In this corpus-based study, Laurel J. Brinton shows that the historical data do not bear out this view, and proposes a more varied and complex conception of the development of comment clauses. Researchers and students of the English language and historical linguistics will certainly consider Brinton's findings to be of great interest."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 280 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780511464959 0511464959 0511464215 9780511464218 9780511551789 0511551789 9781107405011 1107405017 1107200741 9781107200746 1281982385 9781281982384 9786611982386 6611982388 0511462638 9780511462634 0511461887 9780511461880 0511463421 9780511463426 |