Turn-taking is one of the contexts leading to innovative language use. In this article, I will explore the relationship between the emergence of grammatical patterns and intersubjectivity. Final particles belong to the category of linguistic expressions that generate the production of… read more
The study of the use of quotative like has been the object of increasing interest from linguists over the last two decades (see Romaine & Lange 1991; Buchstaller 2002, among others) as it is a recent and global phenomenon. By contrast, final like is more established and restricted to varieties in… read more
This paper proposes a diachronic analysis of final but in a corpus of Northern English, a dialect where final particles represent a characteristic feature of the grammar. Recently, much emphasis was given to the study of but from a synchronic perpective in American and Australian English. This… read more
Among the various syntactic functions that transcategorial but can take, it is the final particle that is the focus of our attention. As it is a characteristic feature of Northern English colloquial conversations, the semantic-pragmatic analysis is pursued in the spoken section of the Scottish… read more
Even though final but is still a relatively recent phenomenon in British English, it is worth studying in more detail. The purpose of the article is to shed some light on final but in the spoken part of the British National Corpus (BNC) and in the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English… read more