Connectives, modals and prototypes: A study of rather

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Connectives as discourse landmarks 1
5. Part I. Connectives and Modality
6. Connectives, modals and prototypes: A study of rather 15
7. The interface between discourse and grammar: The fact is that 31
8. Part II. From Syntax to Pragmatics
9. And as an aspectual connective in the event structure of pseudo-coordinative constructions 49
10. 'Are you a good which or a bad which ?' The relative pronoun as a plain connective 71
11. From temporal to contrastive and causal: The emergence of connective after all 89
12. Part III. Discourse Strategies
13. Orchestrating conversation: The multifunctionality of well and you know in the joint construction of a verbal interaction 103
14. A because B so A' : Circularity and discourse progression in conversational English 117
15. Not that… versus It's not that… 135
16. Part IV. In Search of Operations
17. 'He's a cop but he isn't a bastard': An enunciative approach to some pragmatic effects of the coordinator but 155
18. Continuity and discontinuity in discourse: Notes on yet and still 177
19. Reconsidering the discourse marking hypothesis. Even, even though, even if , etc. as morpheme/construction pairs 195
20. Index 211