Ten Lectures on a Diachronic Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers

by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Stanford University

To date little work has been done on pragmatics within cognitive linguistics, especially from a historical perspective. The lectures presented in this volume give the first systematic account of how pragmatics can be incorporated into cognitive linguistics using a Diachronic Construction Grammar perspective. The author combines detailed study of the historical development of Discourse Structuring Markers like all the same, after all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900450690X
• ISBN13: 9789004506909
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 228 Pages