Current trends in diachronic semantics and pragmatics / / edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, Jacqueline Visconti.
The focus of this volume is on semantic and pragmatic change, its causes and mechanisms. The papers gathered here offer both theoretical proposals of more general scope and in-depth studies of language-specific cases of meaning change in particular notional domains. The analyses include data from En...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Pragmatics, |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bingley, England : : Emerald,, 2009. ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in pragmatics.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Hansen Maj-Britt Mosegaard and Jacqueline Visconti
- Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics / Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti
- APO: Avoid Pragmatic Overload / Regine Eckardt
- Diachronic Pathways and Pragmatic Strategies: Different Types of Pragmatic Particles from a Diachronic Point of View / Ulrich Detges and Richard Waltereit
- Context Sensitive Changes: The Development of the Affirmative Markers godt ‘good’ and vel ‘well’ in Danish / Eva Skafte Jensen
- Procatalepsis and the Etymology of Hedging and Boosting Particles / Kate Beeching
- Central/Peripheral Functions of allora and ‘Overall Pragmatic Configuration’: A Diachronic Perspective / Carla Bazzanella and Johanna Miecznikowski
- The Importance of Paradigms in Grammaticalisation: Spanish Digressive Markers por cierto and a propósito / Maria Estellés
- The Multiple Origin of es que in Modern Spanish: Diachronic Evidence / Magdalena Romera
- From Aspect/Mood Marker to Discourse Particle: Reconstructing Syntactic and Semantic Change / Bethwyn Evans
- The Grammaticalization Channels of Evidentials and Modal Particles in German: Integration in Textual Structures as a Common Feature / Gabriele Diewald , Marijana Kresic and Elena Smirnova
- Evidentiality, Epistemicity, and their Diachronic Connections to Non-Factuality / Mario Squartini
- The Grammaticalization of Negative Reinforcers in Old and Middle French: A Discourse–Functional Approach / Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
- A Roots Journey of a French Preposition / Silvia Adler and Maria Asnes
- The Grammaticalization of Privative Adjectives: The Case of Mere / Elke Gehweiler
- The Origin of Semantic Change in Discourse Tradition: A Case Study / Katerina Stathi.