RT Dissertation/Thesis
T1 Ephemerality in adverbial subordinators: A corpus-based study of causal, conditional and concessive conjunctions in Middle and Modern English
A1 Blanco García, Cristina
K1 ephemeral
K1 conditional and concessive
K1 adverbial subordination
K1 corpus study
K1 linguistic variation
AB This doctoral dissertation explores, from a corpus-basedperspective, the history of ephemeral subordinators from thedomains of causal, conditional and concessive adverbialrelations in Middle and Modern English. Kortmann (1997: 301)denominates ‘ephemeral subordinators’ those that were addedto the inventory of adverbial connectives in Late MiddleEnglish, or more commonly, Early Modern English, but did nothave a lasting effect and died out eventually. The data analysedis retrieved from the Penn Parsed Corpora of HistoricalEnglish. This diachronic study considers both structural (e.g.position of the sub-clause in the sentence) and external factors(e.g. text-type) and offers a comparison of the ephemeralconnectives with the prototypical subordinators for each of theselected categories of adverbial relations.
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30530
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30530
LA eng
DS Minerva
RD 22 abr 2026