Connectives in the History of English
Connectives in the History of English

Author: Ursula Lenker

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2007-07-13

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9027292345

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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.

Conjunctions and Other Parts of Speech
Conjunctions and Other Parts of Speech

Author: Alan Libert

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783631659830

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The classification of words in terms of parts of speech is frequently problematic. This book examines the classification of conjunctions and similar words of other classes. It reviews work done over the past two centuries on a wide range of languages. Most chapters treat conjunctions as opposed to one of the other parts of speech.

Expressive English
Expressive English

Author: James Champlin Fernald

Publisher:

Published: 1918

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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The simplicity of english. The power of english. The english treasury of words. A world-literature in english. English synonyms-their abundance and help-fulness. The english dictionary and how to use it. English connectives - the links of style. English grammar - the frame of style. The enlargement and improvement of the vocabulary. Impoverishment of the vocabulary. cant, slang, etc. Dificulties in english - the way out. Clearness of style. Clearness of style. Clearness of style. Clearness of style. The art of brevity. Figures of speech. Inventive art in speaking and writing. Constructive literary work. Life the supreme achievement.

The Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing
The Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing

Author: Imogen Marcus

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 331966008X

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This book uses a corpus of manuscript letters from Bess of Hardwick to investigate how linguistic features characteristic of spoken communication function within early modern epistolary prose. Using these letters as a primary data source with reference to other epistolary materials from the early modern period (1500-1750), the author examines them in a unique and systematic way. The book is the first of its kind to combine a replicable scribal profiling technique, used to identify holograph and scribal handwriting within the letters, with innovative analyses of the language they contain. Furthermore, by adopting a discourse-analytic approach to the language and making reference to the socio-historical context of language use, the book provides an alternative perspective to the one often presented in traditional historical accounts of English. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of early modern English and historical linguistics.

Connectives and Discourse Relations
Connectives and Discourse Relations

Author: Sandrine Zufferey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-02-29

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1108832997

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Provides a cutting-edge yet accessible introduction to connectives and discourse relations, with examples from a range of languages.