Ebook: Diachronic corpus pragmatics

Diachronic corpus pragmatics : intersections and interactions / Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen -- I had lost sight of them then for a bit, but I went on pretty fast : two degree modifiers in the Old Bailey Corpus / Claudia Claridge and Merja Kytà -- Grammaticalisation of the Finnish stance adverbial muka, 'as if, supposedly, allegedly' / Taru Nordlund and Heli Pekkarinen -- From degree/manner adverbs to pragmatic particles in Japanese : a corpus-based approach to the diachronic parallel developments of amari, bakari, and yahari / Rumiko Shinzato -- Analyzing polysemy statistically across time : TÃ{u0CE5}lt 'exactly, precisely' -- a word with many faces / Annika KÃ{uE9E1}s -- On the development of the Italian truth adverbs davvero and veramente / Davide Ricca and Jacqueline Visconti -- "Strong churlish purging Pills" : multi-adjectival premodification in early modern medical writing in English / Jukka Tyrkkà -- On the origin of clausal parenthetical constructions : evidential/epistemic parentheticals with seem and impersonal think / MarÃ{u180A}osà LÃp3spez-Couso and BelÃn MÃndez-Naya -- Tracing the history of deontic NCI patterns in Dutch / Timothy Colleman and Dirk NoÃ"l -- Front field negation in spoken Swedish : a regional archaism? / Jan K. LindstrÃm -- Compliments in the history of American English : a communicative expression analysis / Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen -- Exploring verbal aggression in English historical texts using USAS : the possibilities, the problems and potential solutions / Dawn Archer -- A matter of tradition and good advice : dialogue analysis and corpus pragmatics in Old Spanish texts / Angela Schrott