The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change

Special issue of the Journal of Historical Pragmatics 21:2 (2020)

Editor

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen | The University of Manchester

[Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 21:2] 2020. v, 182 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.21.2

Table of Contents

Introduction: The role of pragmatics in cyclic language change

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen | pp. 165–181

Articles

Functional expansions of temporal adverbs and discursive connectives: From Latin tum, tunc, dumque to Old Italian dunque

Chiara Fedriani & Piera Molinelli | pp. 182–207
Connectives and cyclicity: From the Latin temporal phrase illa hora to the Italian discourse marker allora

Chiara Ghezzi & Piera Molinelli | pp. 208–235
Semasiological cyclicity in the evolution of discourse markers: A case from Sicilian

Giulio Scivoletto | pp. 236–262
Parallels between the negative cycle and the rise of interrogative marking in French

Richard Waltereit | pp. 263–288
Future markers in Western Romance: Cyclic change, synchronic variation and diachronic competition

Ulrich Detges | pp. 289–314
Some reflections on semantic–pragmatic cycles

Salvador Pons Bordería & Ana Belén Llopis Cardona | pp. 315–346

Subjects

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Historical linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative