Connectives in the History of English

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Ursula Lenker | University of Munich

Anneli Meurman-Solin | University of Helsinki

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Clausal connection is one of the key building blocks of language and thus a field where a wide range of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and cognitive phenomena meet. The availability of large databases as well as considerable advances in corpus-linguistic methods have strengthened the interest in the history of features linking clauses or larger chunks of text. The papers in this volume combine a thorough corpus-based analysis of the history of individual connectives, their co-occurrence patterns, and patterns of variation and change from both intra- and inter-systemic perspectives with a variety of methodological tools, ranging from sophisticated methods of grammatical analysis to pragmatics, text linguistics and discourse analysis. Drawing on quantitatively and qualitatively improved data, the studies reconstruct the history of a wide range of connectives in English from various new theoretical perspectives.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 283] 2007. viii, 318 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.283

Table of Contents

Foreword | pp. vii–viii

Introduction

Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin | pp. 1–10

Adverbial connectives within and beyond adverbial subordination: The history of lest

María José López-Couso | pp. 11–29

To as a connective in the history of English

Bettelou Los | pp. 31–60

From oþ to till: Early loss of an adverbial subordinator

Matti Rissanen | pp. 61–75

Rise of the adverbial conjunctions {any, each, every} time

Laurel J. Brinton | pp. 77–96

The evolution of since in medieval English

Rafal Molencki | pp. 97–113

Grammaticalization and syntactic polyfunctionality: The case of albeit

Elina Sorva | pp. 115–143

On the subjectification of adverbial clause connectives: Semantic and pragmatic considerations in the development of while-clauses

Ana I. González-Cruz | pp. 145–166

A relevance-theoretic view on issues in the history of clausal connectives

Carsten Breul | pp. 167–192

Forhwi ‘because’: Shifting deictics in the history of English causal connection:

Ursula Lenker | pp. 193–227

Conditionals in Early Modern English texts

Claudia Claridge | pp. 229–254

Relatives as sentence-level connectives

Anneli Meurman-Solin | pp. 255–287

'Connective profiles' in the history of English texts: Aspects of orality and literacy

Thomas Kohnen | pp. 289–308

Word Index | pp. 309–311

Subject index | pp. 313–318

“[...] an important and very informative contribution to the study of the historical development of connectives in English and European languages in general.”

Ekkehard König, Freie Universität Berlin, in English Language and Linguistics, 2009

“[...] its potential readership goes far beyond those interested in English historical linguistics, as the volume will also be rewarding for those working on clause combining and grammaticalisation processes in general.”

Belén Méndez-Naya, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in the Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Vol. 11:1 (2010)

“[..] a coherent volume which may be regarded as definitive in its niche area.”

Greame Davis, Open University, UK, on Linguist List, Vol. 19.862 (2008)

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