The development of discourse markers in English

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. List of participants IX
4. Paragraph 16 of Audacht Morainn: linguistic theory and philological evidence 1
5. The missing link: the role of the lexicon 11
6. Text as social indicator: the letters of Julia Miles Barnes 29
7. The development of discourse markers in English 45
8. Localizing William of Palerne 73
9. Philological studies and Mayan languages 87
10. Philology in America: Nahuatl: What loan words and the early descriptions of Nahuatl show about stress, vowel length, and glottal stop in sixteenth century Nahuatl and Spanish 107
11. Towards a dialectology of spoken Old French: the analysis of rhymes 119
12. The phonological status of long consonants in the Vernon manuscript of the Ancrene Riwle 135
13. Linguistic searchlights and philological buckets: a case study of their interdependence (the conceptual field of persuade/convince) 143
14. Syntactic and pragmatic principles as arguments in the interpretation of runic inscriptions 165
15. The relationship between punctuation and syntax in Middle Dutch 187
16. Unhistorical features in Massachusett orthography 227
17. The orthographic aspect of the runes 245
18. The object of philology and the object of linguistics 261
19. The occurrence of glosses in three Late Middle English texts: lexical variation 273
20. On scribal errors: from the Old Saxon evidence 291
21. The last Vercelli homily: a sentence-analytical edition 297
22. Linguistics and philology: parametric changes and Romance possessives 337
23. On the happy reunion of English philology and historical linguistics 353
24. The importance of fine points in spelling: deletion of accented vowels in Tocharian Β 371
25. Index of authors 393
26. Index of languages 399
27. 403-404 403