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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jucker, Andreas H. (Editor ), Landert, Daniela (Editor ), Seiler, Annina (Editor ), Studer-Joho, Nicole (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 148.
Temas:
English language > History.
Historical linguistics.
Linguistique historique.
historical linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
English language.
History.
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.

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