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The Comment Clause in English: Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development: Studies in English Language

Autor Laurel J. Brinton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iul 2012
Although English comment clauses such as I think and you know have been widely studied, this book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment, focusing on comment clauses formed with common verbs of perception and cognition in a variety of syntactic forms. It understands comment clauses as causal pragmatic markers that undergo grammaticalisation, and acquire pragmatic and politeness functions and subjective and intersubjective meanings. To date, the prevailing view of their syntactic development, which is extrapolated from synchronic studies, is that they originate in matrix clauses which become syntactically indeterminate and are reanalysed as parenthetical. In this corpus-based study, Laurel J. Brinton shows that the historical data do not bear out this view, and proposes a more varied and complex conception of the development of comment clauses. Researchers and students of the English language and historical linguistics will certainly consider Brinton's findings to be of great interest.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107405011
ISBN-10: 1107405017
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Studies in English Language

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. Introduction: comment clauses, parentheticals, and pragmatic markers; 2. Semantic and syntactic development of pragmatic markers; 3. Processes of change; 4. Comment clauses with say; 5. I mean; 6. Comment clauses with see; 7. If you will and as it were; 8. Comment clauses with look; 9. What's more and what else; 10. Epistemic/evidential parentheticals - I gather and I find; 11. Concluding remarks.

Recenzii

'Although the outlines of all case studies look similar, they are variable enough to allow for the individual history and function of each discussed item. The organization of each chapter leads to the derivation that is proposed. The analyses are carefully conducted and easy to understand. No proposed derivation remains unclear. … In sum, it is an impressive and excellent study of the derivation of comment clauses. … I can recommend this book to all linguists …' The Linguist List

Descriere

The first full-length treatment of the history of comment clauses in English, providing a complex conception of their development.