The Comment Clause in English
Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23389491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurel J Brinton (0000-0001-9319-7786, University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Comment Clause in English (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511551789 |
| OpenAlex | W109628746 |
| ISBN | 9780511551789 |
| Open Library | OL34442000M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 104 |
| References cited | 7 |
Although English comment clauses such as I think and you know have been widely studied, this book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment, focusing on comment clauses formed with common verbs of perception and cognition in a variety of syntactic forms. It understands comment clauses as causal pragmatic markers that undergo grammaticalisation, and acquire pragmatic and politeness functions and subjective and intersubjective meanings. To date, the prevailing view of their syntactic development, which is extrapolated from synchronic studies, is that they originate in matrix clauses which become syntactically indeterminate and are reanalysed as parenthetical. In this corpus-based study, Laurel J. Brinton shows that the historical data do not bear out this view, and proposes a more varied and complex conception of the development of comment clauses. Researchers and students of the English language and historical linguistics will certainly consider Brinton's findings to be of great interest.
Linguistics · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Clauses · English language · English language, syntax · Historical linguistics
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Lone pronoun tags in Early Modern English
Gonna et le métadiscours en anglais oral spontané
The emergence of last I checked fragments
Tania Kuteva, Bernd Heine, Bo Hong, Haiping Long, Heiko Narrog and Seongha Rhee
Left and right peripheries in discourse
Left-peripheral bottom line sequences
Les verbes recteurs faibles dans l’expression de l’opinion en français et en espagnol
Conditional clauses as polite modifiers in Latin
According to NP
Decompositionalization and Partial Recompositionalization
Could Be it’s Grammaticalization
Hedged Performatives in Spoken American English
Interview with Laurel J. Brinton
N-is Focalizers as Semi-fixed Constructions
Proposition d’une classification des marqueurs discursifs comme membres d’un paradigme
Evidentiality in Early Modern English Medical Treatises (1500–1700)
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The functions of grammaticalized complement-taking-predicate clauses in interrogatives
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Prosody and formation of Modern Chinese parenthetical CTMP ni xiang ‘ you think’
Sisterhood construction through commenting by Chinese women
Is commenting an expositive illocutionary act
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The functions of “I think” in TED Talks and their Turkish translations
Practices of indexing discrepant assumptions with German ich dachte (‘I thought’) in talk-in-interaction
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Peripheries and their internal structure
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| Citations per year | 6.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Highly cited | Yes |