How do you get from ‘after all those movies’ to ‘I went to a movie after all’?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Copyright page / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Note on Supplementary Material / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Figures and Tables / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Preface by the Series Editor / Thomas Fuyin Li and Shan Zuo -- Preface by the Author / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- About the Author / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Lecture 1 Introduction and Goals / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Lecture 2 Essentials of a Historical Perspective on Language / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Lecture 3 Grammaticalization and Constructionalization Compared / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Lecture 4 Discourse Structuring Markers, including Discourse Markers / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Lecture 5 Some Alternative Approaches to the Development of Pragmatic Markers / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Lecture 6 Elaboratives / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Lecture 7 Contrastives / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Lecture 8 Digressives / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Lecture 9 Position / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Lecture 10 Constructional Networks, Wrap Up / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- References / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- About the Series Editor / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Appendix / Elizabeth Closs Traugott.

To date little work has been done on pragmatics within cognitive linguistics, especially from a historical perspective. The lectures presented in this volume give the first systematic account of how pragmatics can be incorporated into cognitive linguistics using a Diachronic Construction Grammar perspective. The author combines detailed study of the historical development of Discourse Structuring Markers like all the same , after all and by the way and propose ways in which to model them. A number of topics are addressed including what a usage based approach to language change is, differences between innovation and change, how to think about analogy and networks, how combinations of Discourse Structuring Markers like now then became a unit, and whether clause-initial and -final positions are constructions. Refinements of Diachronic Construction Grammar are proposed and tested.

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