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Article: Pragmatic Markers in English: Grammaticalization and Discourse Functions.(Review)
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Laurel J. Brinton. Grammaticalization and Discourse Functions. Topics in English Linguistics 19. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. xvi + 412 pp. $124.45 cloth.
Laurel Brinton's ground-breaking new book is a meticulously researched study of Old English and Middle English (OE, ME) "mystery features" - items that have hitherto resisted grammatical and semantic categorization. Brinton proposes to analyze these quite diverse particles and phrases as pragmatic markers, thereby linking them with accounts of similar items in purely oral discourse which, since Deborah Schiffrin's seminal study Discourse Markers (1987), have been at the center of recent research in ...
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... ... neighbor, and community leader, Sherman Simons Brinton, age 86, passed away November 3, 2003 at LDS ... was the third of five children of David Branson Brinton and Ethel Simons Brinton, with whom he began a lifelong love of learning ...
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