“We’ve only missed an emergent phenomenon in Standard British English!”: the mirative ONLY in contemporary colloquial English
This article takes a look at what is hypothesised to be a recent phenomenon restricted to some forms of contemporary British English, whereby the restrictive adverb ONLY seems to have become a discourse marker signalling counter-expectation or undesirability. The article paper begins by examining th...
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| Wydane w: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/erea, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Język: | Anglais |
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2018
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |