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