Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction
5. Diachronic corpus pragmatics 3
6. Words
7. I had lost sight of them then for a bit, but I went on pretty fast 29
8. Grammaticalisation of the Finnish stance adverbial muka , ‘as if, supposedly, allegedly’ 53
9. From degree/manner adverbs to pragmatic particles in Japanese 77
10. Analyzing polysemy in Estonian 107
11. On the development of the Italian truth adverbs davvero and veramente 133
12. Phrases and clauses
13. “Strong churlish purging Pills” 157
14. On the origin of clausal parenthetical constructions 189
15. Tracing the history of deontic NCI patterns in Dutch 213
16. Front field negation in spoken Swedish 237
17. Utterances and dialogues
18. Complimenting in the history of American English 257
19. Exploring verbal aggression in English historical texts using USAS 277
20. A matter of tradition and good advice 303
21. Language index 329
22. Name index 331
23. Subject index 333