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

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

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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, funct...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (293 p.) :; num. figs. and tables
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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