Discourse markers in early modern English /

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Author / Creator:Lutzky, Ursula.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Pragmatics & beyond new series ; 227
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11168409
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ISBN:9789027256324
9027256322
9781283895286
1283895285
9027273286
9789027273284
Notes:Originally presented as author's doctoral thesis at University of Vienna, 2009 under the title "Discourse markers in Early Modern English."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English). By combining both quantitative and qualitative approaches in the study of pragmatic markers, innovative findings are reached about their distribution throughout the period 1500-1760, their attestation in different speech-related text types as well as similarities and differences in their f.
Other form:Print version: 9781283895286