Argument and rhetoric [[electronic resource] ] : adverbial connectors in the history of English / / by Ursula Lenker
| Argument and rhetoric [[electronic resource] ] : adverbial connectors in the history of English / / by Ursula Lenker |
| Autore | Lenker Ursula |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
| Disciplina | 425/.76 |
| Collana | Topics in English linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Adverbials
English language - Connectives English language - History English language - Grammar, Historical English language - Grammar |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-71440-6
9786612714405 3-11-021606-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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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Lenker Ursula
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| Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Argument and rhetoric [[electronic resource] ] : adverbial connectors in the history of English / / by Ursula Lenker
| Argument and rhetoric [[electronic resource] ] : adverbial connectors in the history of English / / by Ursula Lenker |
| Autore | Lenker Ursula |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
| Disciplina | 425/.76 |
| Collana | Topics in English linguistics |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Adverbials
English language - Connectives English language - History English language - Grammar, Historical English language - Grammar |
| Soggetto non controllato |
English /language
historical linguistics syntax |
| ISBN |
1-282-71440-6
9786612714405 3-11-021606-X |
| Classificazione | HE 140 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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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Lenker Ursula
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| Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2010 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Connectives in the history of English [[electronic resource] ] : [selected papers from 13th ICEHL, Vienna, 23-28 August 2004] / / edited by Ursula Lenker
| Connectives in the history of English [[electronic resource] ] : [selected papers from 13th ICEHL, Vienna, 23-28 August 2004] / / edited by Ursula Lenker |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
| Disciplina | 420/.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LenkerUrsula |
| Collana | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - History
English language - Grammar English language - Connectives English language - Grammar, Historical |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-15298-X
9786612152986 90-272-9234-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454646003321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., 2007 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Connectives in the history of English [[electronic resource] ] : [selected papers from 13th ICEHL, Vienna, 23-28 August 2004] / / edited by Ursula Lenker
| Connectives in the history of English [[electronic resource] ] : [selected papers from 13th ICEHL, Vienna, 23-28 August 2004] / / edited by Ursula Lenker |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
| Disciplina | 420/.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LenkerUrsula |
| Collana | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - History
English language - Grammar English language - Connectives English language - Grammar, Historical |
| ISBN |
1-282-15298-X
9786612152986 90-272-9234-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782038003321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., 2007 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Connectives in the history of English : [selected papers from 13th ICEHL, Vienna, 23-28 August 2004] / / edited by Ursula Lenker
| Connectives in the history of English : [selected papers from 13th ICEHL, Vienna, 23-28 August 2004] / / edited by Ursula Lenker |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
| Disciplina | 420/.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LenkerUrsula |
| Collana | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - History
English language - Grammar English language - Connectives English language - Grammar, Historical |
| ISBN |
9786612152986
9781282152984 128215298X 9789027292346 9027292345 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Connectives in the History of English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Connectives and current linguistic research -- 2. Connectives: Continua in clause linkage -- 3. Domains: Typological findings -- 4. Grammaticalization -- 5. Co-occurrence patterns -- 6. Language contact -- 7. Theoretical and methodological synergies -- References -- Adverbial connectives within and beyond adverbial subordination -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The subordinator lest in the history of English -- 3. From negative purpose lest to complementizer lest -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Sources -- References -- To as a connective in the history of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The categorial status of the to-infinitive in Old English -- 2.1. The to-infinitive is not a prepositional phrase -- 2.2. Evidence for clausal status -- 3. From PP to clause -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The to-infinitive as purpose adjunct and goal argument -- 3.3. The to-infinitive as theme argument -- 3.4. Subjunctives, nominalizations and to-infinitives compared -- 3.5. From derivation to inflection: The category change -- 4. To as a connective -- 4.1. Lehmann's parameters -- 4.2. The parameter of hierarchical downgrading -- 4.3. The parameter of the main clause syntactic level -- 4.4. The parameter of desententialization -- 4.5. The parameter of explicitness of linking -- 4.6. Recapitulating the position of the to-infinitive on Lehmann's continuum -- 5. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Appendix -- From o'376 to till -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Old English adverbial subordinators -- 3. Old English o'376: Preposition and subordinator -- 3.1. O'376 as a preposition -- 3.2. O'376 as a subordinator -- 4. OE til: A rare northern preposition -- 5. Early Middle English replacement of o'376 by til -- 5.1. The loss of o'376.
5.2. The popularization of til -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Sources -- References -- Rise of the adverbial conjunctions {any, each, every} time -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammatical function of the forms in Modern English -- 3. Development of any time -- 4. Development of each time -- 5. Development of every time -- 6. Accounting for the development -- 6.1. Derivation from a relative clause -- 6.2. Derivation from a PP -- 7. Conclusion: An example of grammaticalization -- Sources -- References -- The evolution of since in medieval English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Etymology and form -- 3. The adverb -- 4. The preposition -- 5. The conjunction -- 6. Semantic developments -- 7. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Grammaticalization and syntactic polyfunctionality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The origin of albeit -- 2.1. Plain inversion and the all + inversion pattern -- 2.2. The all-element -- 2.3. The conjunctival phrase all be it (that) -- 2.4. Parallels in Old French: tout soit il que and the tout + inversion pattern -- 3. The rise and fall of the univerbated connective albeit -- 3.1. Quantitative analysis of albeit in the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts -- 3.2. Quantitative analysis of albeit in the Helsinki Corpus of Older Scots -- 3.3. Syntactic functions -- 3.4. Additional evidence of univerbation and phonetic attrition -- 3.5. The marginalization of albeit -- 4. Resurfacing and use in Present-Day English -- 4.1. Rise in frequency -- 4.2. Syntactic functions -- 5. An alternative line of development -- 6. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- On the subjectification of adverbial clause connectives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Semantic change in while-clauses: A corpus-based study -- 3.1. The corpus -- 3.2. Semasiological development -- 4. Factors determining the position of while-clauses -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Sources. References -- A relevance-theoretic view on issues in the history of clausal connectives -- 1. The diachrony of clausal connectives and pragmatic inferencing -- 2. Semantic diachrony of clausal connectives and neo-Gricean principles -- 2.1. Three types of phenomena -- 2.2. Discussion of the I-principle -- 2.3. The detachment problem -- 3. A relevance-theoretic approach: The examples of where and whereas -- 3.1. Relevance theory in a nutshell -- 3.2. Relevance theory as the key to a solution of the detachment problem -- 3.3. An account of the semantic diachrony of where and whereas -- 4. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Forhwi `because': -- 1. Aims of the study -- 2. Causal connectors -- 2.1. The relation cause: cause - result vs. result - cause -- 2.2. Present-Day English causal connectors: Corpus findings -- 2.3. Causal connectors: Word classes and topology -- 2.4. Semantic and pragmatic parameters -- 2.5. Information processing -- 3. Old English for'376æm, for'376on, for'376y -- 3.1. Forms and functions of for'376æm, for'376on, for'376y -- 3.2. Expressions for causal relations in Early and Late West Saxon -- 4. Discourse deixis -- 4.1. For'376æm: Morphological make-up and discourse deixis -- 4.2. Pronominal connectors -- 4.3. Pronominal connectors in Present-Day German -- 4.4. Deictic elements in English causal connectors -- 4.5. Pronominal connectors in the history of the Romance Languages: From Latin to French-based creoles -- 5. Causal connectors in the history of English -- 5.1. Causal connectors in English translations of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae -- 5.2. Adverbial connectors in the history of English -- 5.3. Deixis in new adverbial connectors -- 5.4. `Recursive' for - Latin nam/enim -- 5.5. Subordinators: for as much as, since, because -- 6. Conclusions -- Sources -- References -- Conditionals in Early Modern English texts. 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research -- 3. The data: An exploratory look -- 4. The textual function of conditionals: topics vs. polar frameworks -- 4.1. Given information -- 4.2. Polarity -- 4.3. Illustrations of polar frameworks -- 5. Position of if-clauses -- 5.1. Parenthetical if-clauses -- 5.2. Final if-clauses -- 6. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Relatives as sentence-level connectives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The concept of relative connective -- 2.1. Definition for analysis in epistolary prose -- 2.2. Relative connectives in grammatical description -- 3. Data -- 3.1. Manuscript sources in the analysis of sentence and clause structure -- 3.2. Technical tools for creating a typology of relatives -- 4. Relative connectives in the Corpus of Scottish Correspondence -- 4.1. General statistics -- 4.2. Degree of explicitness in the system of anaphoric reference -- 4.3. Relative connectives incorporating an adverbial role -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Sources -- References -- `Connective profiles' in the history of English texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpus -- 3. Coordinators and subordinators -- 4. Results -- 5. Orality/literacy and the `connective profiles' of English text types -- 6. Conclusion -- Sources -- References -- Appendix: The corpus -- Word index -- Subject index -- The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. |
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| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., 2007 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Discourse markers in native and non-native English discourse / / Simone Muller
| Discourse markers in native and non-native English discourse / / Simone Muller |
| Autore | Muller Simone |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Disciplina | 401/.41 |
| Collana | Pragmatics & beyond |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Discourse analysis
English language - Spoken English English language - Connectives English language - Particles Discourse markers |
| ISBN |
9786612156250
9781282156258 128215625X 9789027293961 9027293961 |
| Classificazione | HF 350 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Discourse markers and second language acquisition -- 1.2. Discourse markers in the literature -- 1.2.1. Terminology -- 1.2.2. Properties of discourse markers -- 1.2.3. Functions of discourse markers -- 1.2.4. Material for analysis -- 1.2.5. Core meaning vs. multiple functions -- 1.2.6. Native vs. non-native English -- 1.3. Second language acquisition, applied linguistics, and discourse markers -- 1.3.1. Second versus foreign language -- 1.3.2. Applied linguistics and SLA -- 1.3.3. Communicative competence -- 1.3.4. Research in interlanguage pragmatics -- 1.3.5. Speech acts and parallel corpora -- 1.3.6. Gambits -- 1.4. The present study -- 1.4.1. Basic assumption of the present study: Multifunctionality -- 1.4.2. Basic approach to data material: Corpus-driven or bottom-up -- 1.4.3. Selection and definition of discourse markers -- 1.4.4. Methodology -- 1.4.5. Discourse marker functions and levels of discourse -- 1.5. The Giessen-Long Beach Chaplin Corpus (GLBCC) -- 1.5.1. Purpose of the corpus -- 1.5.2. Experiment design -- 1.5.3. Transcription and intonation unit -- 1.6. The data -- 1.7. Influential factors for the use and distribution of discourse markers -- 1.7.1. Non-linguistic factors -- 1.7.2. Linguistic factors -- 1.8. The speakers -- 1.8.1. Native-nonnative pair distribution -- 1.8.2. Gender distribution -- 1.8.3. Age distribution -- 1.8.4. Relationship between speakers -- 1.8.5. Role distribution -- 1.8.6. The German speakers according to their acquisition and use of English -- 2. So -- 2.1. Functions of so in the literature -- 2.2. The functional categories of so in this study.
2.2.1. Non-discourse marker functions of so -- 2.2.2. Discourse marker functions of so -- 2.2.3. Summary of the functions of so -- 2.3. Quantitative results for so -- 2.3.1. Non-linguistic factors -- 2.3.2. Linguistic factors -- 2.3.3. Summary of the quantitative results for so -- 3. Well -- 3.1. Functions of well in the literature -- 3.2. The functional categories of well in this study -- 3.2.1. Non-discourse marker functions of well -- 3.2.2. Discourse marker functions of well -- 3.2.3. Summary of the functions of well -- 3.3. Quantitative results for well -- 3.3.1. Non-linguistic factors -- 3.3.2. Linguistic factors -- 3.3.3. Summary of the quantitative results for well -- 4. You know -- 4.1. Functions of you know in the literature -- 4.2. The functional categories of you know in this study -- 4.2.1. Non-discourse marker function of you know -- 4.2.2. Discourse marker functions of you know -- 4.2.3. Summary of the discourse marker functions of you know -- 4.3. Quantitative results for you know -- 4.3.1. Non-linguistic factors -- 4.3.2. Linguistic factors -- 4.3.3. Summary of the quantitative results for you know -- 5. Like -- 5.1. Functions of like in the literature -- 5.2. The functional categories of like in this study -- 5.2.1. Non-discourse marker, non-quotative like -- 5.2.2. Discourse marker functions of like -- 5.2.3. Like - a textual discourse marker -- 5.2.4. Quotative like -- 5.2.5. Unclassified instances -- 5.3. Quantitative results for like -- 5.3.1. Non-linguistic factors -- 5.3.2. Linguistic factors -- 5.3.3. Summary of the quantitative results for like -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 1. Summary of the movie -- Appendix 2.1. Questionnaire used in Long Beach -- Appendix 2.2. Questionnaire used in Giessen -- Appendix 3. Transcription symbols -- Author index -- Subject index -- The Pragmatics &. Beyond New Series. |
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Muller Simone
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| Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Discourse markers in native and non-native English discourse [[electronic resource] /] / Simone Müller
| Discourse markers in native and non-native English discourse [[electronic resource] /] / Simone Müller |
| Autore | Müller Simone |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Disciplina | 401/.41 |
| Collana | Pragmatics & beyond |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Discourse analysis
English language - Spoken English English language - Connectives English language - Particles Discourse markers |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-15625-X
9786612156250 90-272-9396-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449920803321 |
Müller Simone
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| Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Discourse markers in native and non-native English discourse [[electronic resource] /] / Simone Müller
| Discourse markers in native and non-native English discourse [[electronic resource] /] / Simone Müller |
| Autore | Müller Simone |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Disciplina | 401/.41 |
| Collana | Pragmatics & beyond |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Discourse analysis
English language - Spoken English English language - Connectives English language - Particles Discourse markers |
| ISBN |
1-282-15625-X
9786612156250 90-272-9396-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783426303321 |
Müller Simone
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| Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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