Elizabeth Closs Traugott. Discourse structuring markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics
[Constructional Approaches to Language 33]. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2022. xviii + 293 pp. ISBN 9789027210913 (hb) / 9789027257925 (ebook)

Reviewed by

Bernd Heine | University of Cologne

Haiping Long | Sun Yat-sen University

Published online: 10 June 2022

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