Discourse particles in early English: Clause structure, pragmatics and discourse management

This article presents a case study on the shifting interaction between clause structure, information structure and discourse organisation in the history of English, as evidenced by the development from Old to Middle English of what we will call discourse particles: discourse-cohesive devices grammat...

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Main Authors: Ans van Kemenade, Meta Links
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-01-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/1020