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1 online resource (viii, 318 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory,
0304-0763 ;
v. 283
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 283.
0304-0763
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"Revised versions of papers presented at a workshop on 'Clausal connectives in the history of English' at the 13th International Conference of English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL) in Vienna on the 23-28 August 2004"--Foreword. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
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 varie. |
| Contents |
Connectives in the History of English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; Introduction; Adverbial connectives within and beyond adverbial subordination; To as a connective in the history of English; From o'376 to till; Rise of the adverbial conjunctions {any, each, every} time; The evolution of since in medieval English; Grammaticalization and syntactic polyfunctionality; On the subjectification of adverbial clause connectives; A relevance-theoretic view on issues in the history of clausal connectives; Forhwi b̀ecause' |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- History -- Congresses.
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English language. |
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History. |
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English language -- Grammar -- Congresses.
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English language -- Grammar. |
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English language -- Connectives -- Congresses.
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English language -- Connectives. |
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English language -- Grammar, Historical -- Congresses.
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English language -- Grammar, Historical. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Lenker, Ursula.
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Meurman-Solin, Anneli.
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Print version: International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (13th : 2004 : University of Vienna). Connectives in the history of English. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007 9789027247988 9027247986 (DLC) 2007011997 (OCoLC)105445684 |
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9789027292346 (electronic book) |
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9027292345 (electronic book) |
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9789027247988 (alkaline paper) |
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9027247986 (alkaline paper) |
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