Connectives in the history of English : [selected papers from 13th ICEHL, Vienna, 23-28 August 2004] / / edited by Ursula Lenker

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 420/.9
• Soggetto topico: English language - History; English language - Grammar; English language - Connectives; English language - Grammar, Historical
• Altri autori: LenkerUrsula
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Clausal connection is one of the key building blocks of language and thus a field where a wide range of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and cognitive phenomena meet. The availability of large databases as well as considerable advances in corpus-linguistic methods have strengthened the interest in the history of features linking clauses or larger chunks of text. The papers in this volume combine a thorough corpus-based analysis of the history of individual connectives, their co-occurrence patterns, and patterns of variation and change from both intra- and inter-systemic perspectives with a variety of methodological tools, ranging from sophisticated methods of grammatical analysis to pragmatics, text linguistics and discourse analysis. Drawing on quantitatively and qualitatively improved data, the studies reconstruct the history of a wide range of connectives in English from various new theoretical perspectives.
• Titolo autorizzato: Connectives in the history of English
• ISBN: 1-282-15298-X; 9786612152986; 90-272-9234-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825010303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II