The development of speaker-oriented adverbs in English : reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy? /

"The book investigates the development of 'speaker-oriented adverbs' (SOAs) such as frankly, surprisingly, and apparently in standard written English. SOAs take propositional scope, i.e. they modify clauses or sentences. It is generally assumed that they have developed from historical...

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Main Authors: Haumann, Dagmar (Author), Killie, Kristin, 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025.
Series:Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today, volume 287
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