TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jucker,Andreas H.
AU  - Landert,Daniela
AU  - Seiler,Annina
AU  - Studer-Joho,Nicole
TI  - Meaning in the history of English: words and texts in context 
T2  - Studies in language companion series,
SN  - 9789027270894
AV  - PE1075 .M598 2013eb
U1  - 420.9 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - English language
KW  - History
KW  - Historical linguistics
KW  - Linguistique historique
KW  - historical linguistics
KW  - aat
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Uncovering layers of meaning in the history of the English language / Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho -- Layers of reading in the Old English Bede : the case of Oxford Corpus Christi College 279B / Christine Wallis -- Unlikely-looking Old English verb forms / Eric Stanley -- On the importance of noting uncertainty in etymological research : some implications of a re-examination of the etymology of road / Philip Durkin -- "A Wiltshire word, according to Kennett" : the contribution of MS Lansd. 1033 to Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words (1847) / Javier Ruano-García -- Enforcing or effacing useful distinctions? : imply vs. infer / Don Chapman -- The role of context in the meaning specification of cant and slang words in eighteenth-century English / Roxanne But -- Let's talk about uton / Linda van Bergen -- Exploring part-of-speech profiles and authorship attribution in Early Modern medical texts / Jukka Tyrkkö -- The positioning of adverbial clauses in the Paston letters / Yoko Iyeiri -- Complexity and genre conventions : text structure and coordination in Early Modern English proclamations / Anu Lehto -- Formulaic discourse across Early Modern English medical genres : investigating shared lexical bundles / Joanna Kopaczyk -- "Treasure of pore men", "countrymans friend" or "gentlewomans companion"? On the use of interpersonal strategies in the titles of Early Modern English medical texts / Marta Sylwanowicz -- "I saw ye Child burning in ye fire" : evidentiality in Early Modern English witness depositions / Peter Grund
N2  - This article explores the use of evidentials, or markers of source of information in witness depositions from England in the period 1680-1710. By comparing the results with those from a previous study on the Salem witch trials (Grund 2012), I point to significant similarities in the linguistic forms and deployment of markers signaling sensory evidence, inference, assumption, and quotatives (i.e. information based on what other people have said). I also demonstrate the importance of considering the socio-historical and situational context in the interpretation of the evidentials: the legal sett
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