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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : comment clauses, parentheticals, and pragmatic markers
- Semantic and syntactic development of pragmatic markers
- Processes of change
- Comment clauses with say
- I mean
- Comment clauses with see
- If you will and as it were
- Comment clauses with look
- What's more and what else
- Epistemic/evidential parentheticals : I gather and I find
- Concluding remarks.