 | Argument and Rhetoric : Adverbial Connectors in the History of English The book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English. The author analyses different characteristics of the make-up, functions and use of connectives, and considers morphological and syntactic factors as well as pragmatic, textlinguistic and socio-cultural aspects. Ursula Lenker, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. |
