Ch. 1. "Mystery features" of Old and Middle English -- Ch. 2. Conceptual background -- Ch. 3. Middle English gan -- Ch. 4. Middle and Early Modern English anon -- Ch. 5. Old English episode boundary markers -- Ch. 6. Middle English episode boundary markers -- Ch. 7. Old English hwaet -- Ch. 8. Middle English I gesse -- Ch. 9. Concluding remarks -- Appendix A. Substantive studies of individual pragmatic markers in Modern English -- Appendix B. Typologies of pragmatic markers in Modern English -- Appendix C. Occurrences of gan in Treilus and Criseyde -- Appendix D. Cooccurrence of adverbials with gan in Troilus and Criseyde -- Appendix E. Episodic structure and occurrences of anon and gan in Book II of Troilus and Criseyde -- Appendix F. Occurrences of anon in Books 6, 11, and 16 of Le morte d'Arthur -- Appendix G. Bifel-constructions in The Canterbury tales -- Appendix H. Bifel-constructions in Le morte d'Arthur -- Appendix I. Preposed whan-clauses in "The Knight's tale."
Appendix J. Preposed whan-clauses in Book 16 of Le morte d'Arthur -- Appendix K. First-person epistemic parentheticals in The Canterbury tales -- Appendix L. First-person epistemic parentheticals in Troilus and Criseyde -- Appendix M. Occurrences of God woot in The Canterbury tales -- Appendix N. Occurrences of God woot in Troilus and Criseyde -- Appendix O. Occurrences of trusteth me wel in The Canterbury tales
Summary
Grammaticalization and Discourse Functions Laurel J. Brinton. Chapter 2 Conceptual background 2.0. Introduction This chapter examines the scholarly literature on a number of concepts important for the study of pragmatic markers
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-403) and index
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