: Ursula Lenker
: Argument and Rhetoric. Adverbial Connectors in the History of English Adverbial Connectors in the History of English
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110216066
: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 124.00
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: Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
: English
: 309
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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.



Ursula Lenker, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit& 228;t München, Germany.
Contents8
List of abbreviations16
1. The framework18
2. Clausal connection39
3. The category “adverb”50
4. Adverbs and conjunctions in earlier metalinguistic thought66
5. Connectors in Old English75
6. Adverbial connectors in the history of English93
7. Adverbial connectors: morphology105
8. Cognitive source domains123
9. Shifting deictics in the history of English causal connection148
10. contrast/concession185
11. addition231
12. transition244
13. Perspicuity and the “New Rhetoric”250
14. Conclusions264
References268
Appendix A293
Word index303
Subject and name index308