基本説明
The papers in this volume, the majority of which are revised versions of papers presented at a workshop on “Clausal Connectives in the History of English” (13th ICEHL, Vienna 2004), set out to combine a thorough corpus-based analysis of the history of individual connectors, 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.
Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Foreword; 2. Introduction (by Lenker, Ursula); 3. Adverbial connectives within and beyond adverbial subordination: The history of lest (by Lopez-Couso, Maria Jose); 4. To as a connective in the history of English (by Los, Bettelou); 5. From op to till: Early loss of an adverbial subordinator (by Rissanen, Matti); 6. Rise of the adverbial conjunctions {any, each, every} time (by Brinton, Laurel J.); 7. The evolution of since in medieval English (by Molencki, Rafal); 8. Grammaticalization and syntactic polyfunctionality: The case of albeit (by Sorva, Elina); 9. On the subjectification of adverbial clause connectives: Semantic and pragmatic considerations in the development of while-clauses (by Gonzalez-Cruz, Ana I.); 10. A relevance-theoretic view on issues in the history of clausal connectives (by Breul, Carsten); 11. Forhwi 'because': Shifting deictics in the history of English causal connection (by Lenker, Ursula); 12. Conditionals in Early Modern English texts (by Claridge, Claudia); 13. Relatives as sentence-level connectives (by Meurman-Solin, Anneli); 14. 'Connective profiles' in the history of English texts: Aspects of orality and literacy (by Kohnen, Thomas); 15. Word Index; 16. Subject index
