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100 1 $aBrinton, Laurel J.
245 14 $aThe comment clause in English :$bsyntactic origins and pragmatic development /$cLaurel J. Brinton.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2008.
300 $axvii, 280 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aStudies in English language
490 0 $aStudies in English language
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-274) and indexes.
505 0 $aIntroduction : comment clauses, parentheticals, and pragmatic markers -- Semantic and syntactic development of pragmatic markers -- Processes of change -- Comment clauses with say -- I mean -- Comment clauses with see -- If you will and as it were -- Comment clauses with look -- What's more and what else -- Epistemic/evidential parentheticals : I gather and I find -- Concluding remarks.
520 1 $a"Although English comment clauses such as I think and you know have been widely studied, this book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment, focusing on comment clauses formed with common verbs of perception and cognition in a variety of syntactic forms. It understands comment clauses as causal pragmatic markers that undergo grammaticalization, and acquire pragmatic and politeness functions and subjective and intersubjective meanings. To date, the prevailing view of their syntactic development, which is extrapolated from synchronic studies, is that they originate in matrix clauses which become systematically indeterminate and are reanalyzed as parenthetical. In this corpus-based study, Laurel J. Brinton shows that the historical data do not bear out this view, and proposes a more varied and complex conception of the development of comment clauses. Researchers and students of the English language and historical linguistics will certainly consider Brinton's findings to be of great interest."--Jacket.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xClauses.
650 0 $aHistorical linguistics.
988 $a20081220
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