Argument and Rhetoric: Adverbial Connectors in the History of English (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] Book 64)

Main description: The book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English. The author analyses different characteristics of the make-up, functions and use of connectives, and considers morphological and syntactic factors as well as pragmatic, textlinguistic and socio-cultural aspects

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Frontmatter 2 Contents 8 List of abbreviations 16 1. The framework 18 2. Clausal connection 39 3. The category “adverb” 50 4. Adverbs and conjunctions in earlier metalinguistic thought 66 5. Connectors in Old English 75 6. Adverbial connectors in the history of English 93 7. Adverbial connectors: morphology 105 8. Cognitive source domains 123 9. Shifting deictics in the history of English causal connection 148 10. contrast/concession 185 11. addition 231 12. transition 244 13. Perspicuity and the “New Rhetoric” 250 14. Conclusions 264 Backmatter 268 3110205580,9783110205589 By Ursula Lenker. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. System Requirements For Accompanying Cd-rom: Cd-rom Drive.