Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English
Volume 8

Connectives in Synchrony and Diachrony in European Languages

Edited by Anneli Meurman-Solin¹ & Ursula Lenker²

¹ Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG), University of Helsinki
² Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Publication date: 2011

Table of contents

Anneli Meurman-Solin & Ursula Lenker
Preface
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/08/introduction.html

Ursula Lenker
A focus on adverbial connectors: Connecting, partitioning and focusing attention in the history of English
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/08/lenker/

Matti Rissanen
On the long history of English adverbial subordinators
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/08/rissanen/

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
When turns start with because: An exercise in interactional syntax
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/08/couper-kuhlen/

Helga Hilmisdóttir
The functions of the syntactically non-integrated nú ‘now’ in Icelandic conversation
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/08/hilmisdottir/

Brita Wårvik
Connective or “disconnective” discourse marker? Old English þa, multifunctionality and narrative structuring
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/08/warvik/

Matti Kilpiö & Olga Timofeeva
Semantic polyfunctionality and grammaticalization of the Old English subordinator be þæm þe: A corpus-based study
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/08/kilpio_timofeeva/

Juhani Härmä
The beginning of the end: The Old French conjunction ains in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/08/harma/

Hanna Lehti-Eklund
The pragmatic development of (jag) hoppas / hoppas jag in Swedish
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/08/lehti-eklund/

Anneli Meurman-Solin
Utterance-initial connective elements in early Scottish epistolary prose
http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/08/meurman-solin/

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