Discourse Markers in Early Modern English

This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry , well and why through the analysis of three corpora ( A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English ). By combining both quantitative and qualitative approaches in the study of pragmatic markers, innovative findings are reached about their distribution throughout the period 1500-1760, thei