Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its developmental context, its social context, and its ideological context. The final chapter examines the ways in which these contexts overlap and inform current understanding of acquisition, structure, change, and embedding.
The volume also features an extensive appendix, containing numerous examples of like in its pragmatic functions from a range of English corpora, both diachronic and synchronic. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of English historical linguistics, grammaticalization, language variation and change, discourse-pragmatics and the interface of these fields with formal linguistic theory.
| ISBN: | 9789027259523 |
| Publication date: | 21st September 2017 |
| Author: | Alexandra DArcy |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 255 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Language Companion Series |
| Genres: |
Historical and comparative linguistics |
Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its developmental context, its social context, and its ideological context.
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context features in the following genres: Historical and comparative linguistics
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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context was written by Alexandra DArcy and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company
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