This book takes a diachronic approach to a variety of forms commonly subsumed under the notion of COMMENT CLAUSE (CC). It explicitly excludes some of the most frequent, well-known and widely studied CCs, for example I think and I guess, which have been discussed elsewhere by the same author (Brinton 1996). At the same time, it includes some less widely studied examples, such as CCs with see, sa...

This article examines the grammaticalization process of the Korean dative markers -eykey, -hanthey, -tele, and -pwokwo based on the two motivations for grammaticalization. The first motivation, frequency, is explained by providing token frequencies of each marker in the largest historical corpus available in Korean. All four dative markers arose through the highly frequent usages of their sourc...

The phenomenon of language use in social media is interesting and important because it can describe positive or negative use. purpose the study was to analyze pragmatic markers forms on era new habits during COVID 19 outbreak. research method used a qualitative approach. results are: (1) religious markers, (2) pronoun (3) interjection (4) appreciation markers. form pragmatics consists of, synta...

Recently, studies on spoken language in real-life contexts increased dramatically. As a result, some of the features previously considered „empty‟, „superfluous‟ and redundantsuch as sort of, y‟know and well (Goddard and Meanpatterson, 2000, p. 98) now are considered as crucial aspects of interpersonal communication. These expressions called „discourse markers‟ (Schiffrin, 1987) or „pragmatic e...

The present study aims to investigate the relative effectiveness of different types of pragmatic instruction including two collaborative translation tasks and two structured input tasks with and without explicit pragmatic instruction on the production of apologetic utterances by low-intermediate EFL learners. One hundred and fifty university students in four experimental groups and one control ...

We will argue that this construction combines semantic and syntactic quirks that necessitate a constructional analysis. Further, we will show that specifying the pragmatic properties of the construction (and in particular the presuppositions that introduces) allows for a particularly elegant account of the construction’s distribution. This, in turn, provides further support for the sign-based v...