Comment Clause in English - Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development

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

List of contents

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.

Summary

English comment clauses such as I think and you know have been widely studied in present-day English. This study, however, constitutes the first full-length treatment of the history of comment clauses in the English language, and proposes a varied and complex conception of their development.

Product details

• Authors: Laurel J. Brinton, Laurel J. (University of British Columbia Brinton, BRINTON LAUREL J, Brinton Laurel J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107405011
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40501-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Studies in English Language; Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology