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Informationen zum Autor Laurel J. Brinton is Professor of English Language at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is co-author of several books, including Lexicalization and Language Change (Cambridge, 2005, with Elizabeth Closs Traugott), The Comment Clause in English: Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development (Cambridge, 2008) and The English Language: A Linguistic History 3rd ed. (2016, with Leslie K. Arnovick). She served as co-editor of the Journal of Historical Pragmatics and is currently co-editor of English Language and Linguistics. Klappentext This is a detailed diachronic study of a set of English pragmatic markers, providing insights concerning their syntactic and semantic development. Zusammenfassung This book examines the historical origins and development of pragmatic (or discourse) markers ranging from Old English to the present-day English! and provides new insights concerning their syntactic and semantic development. It is ideal for scholars in the fields of pragmatics! history of English! corpus linguistics and English historical syntax and semantics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Pragmatic markers: synchronic and diachronic; Part I. From Lexical Item to Pragmatic Marker: 2. Old English hwæt; 3. Middle English whilom; 4. Modern English only and if only; Part II. From Clausal Construction to Pragmatic Marker: 5. Epistemic parentheticals; 6. I / you admit and admittedly; 7. Forms of say: that said and I'm just saying; 8. Two politeness comment clauses: if I may say so and for what it's worth; 9. What is more and whatever; 10. Concluding remarks: pathways of change; Appendix: list of corpora and text collections; References; Index.
