Argument and Rhetoric : : Adverbial Connectors in the History of English / / Ursula Lenker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Lenker, Ursula,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 64
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (293 p.) :; num. figs. and tables
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110216066; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110219517; 9783110219524; 9783110219548; 9783110219470
• ISSN: 1434-3452
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110216066
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ursula Lenker.

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, functions and use of connectives, and considers morphological and syntactic factors as well as pragmatic, textlinguistic and socio-cultural aspects.