Bénédicte Guillaume — A Corpus-Based Study of Since Clauses in Contemporary English. Toulouse : PU du Mirail, 2014, 195 pages.
This book proposes an analysis of the properties of since clauses in contemporary English, based on a sample of 526 occur-rences, most of them from the British National Corpus. It is usually considered that since (Old English siÞÞan) used to have strictly temporal meanings and that, like a number o...
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| Zusammenfassung: | This book proposes an analysis of the properties of since clauses in contemporary English, based on a sample of 526 occur-rences, most of them from the British National Corpus. It is usually considered that since (Old English siÞÞan) used to have strictly temporal meanings and that, like a number of adverbial subordinators (cf. Traugott 1989), it acquired a causal value later on, in this case in Middle English; the aim of the study is to establish whether since should still be regarded as a ... |
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