Book contents
- Late Modern English Syntax
- Series page
- Late Modern English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Data sources (corpora)
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Late Modern English syntax in its linguistic and socio-historical context
- Part I Changes in the VP
- Part II Changes in the NP
- Part III Changes in complementation patterns
- Part IV Category change
- Part V The syntax–pragmatics interface
- 14 If you choose/like/prefer/want/wish: the origin of metalinguistic and politeness functions
- 15 Epistemic parentheticals withseem: Late Modern English in focus
- Part VI Text-type related change
- Part VII Language contact and syntactic change
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
14 - If you choose/like/prefer/want/wish: the origin of metalinguistic and politeness functions
from Part V - The syntax–pragmatics interface
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Book contents
- Late Modern English Syntax
- Series page
- Late Modern English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Data sources (corpora)
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Late Modern English syntax in its linguistic and socio-historical context
- Part I Changes in the VP
- Part II Changes in the NP
- Part III Changes in complementation patterns
- Part IV Category change
- Part V The syntax–pragmatics interface
- 14 If you choose/like/prefer/want/wish: the origin of metalinguistic and politeness functions
- 15 Epistemic parentheticals withseem: Late Modern English in focus
- Part VI Text-type related change
- Part VII Language contact and syntactic change
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
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- Late Modern English Syntax , pp. 271 - 290Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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