Ephemerality in adverbial subordinators: A corpus-based study of causal, conditional and concessive conjunctions in Middle and Modern English

• Autores: Cristina Blanco García
• Directores de la Tesis: María José López Couso (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ( España ) en 2023
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Javier Calle Martín (presid.), Belén Méndez Naya (secret.), Rafal Molencki (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados: Lingüística, Literatura y Cultura por la Universidad de A Coruña; la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela y la Universidad de Vigo
• Materias:
  • Lingüística
    • Lingüística diacrónica
      • Lingüística histórica
    • Teoría lingüística
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: MINERVA
• Resumen

  • This doctoral dissertation explores, from a corpus-based perspective, the history of ephemeral subordinators from the domains of causal, conditional and concessive adverbial relations in Middle and Modern English. Kortmann (1997: 301) denominates ‘ephemeral subordinators’ those that were added to the inventory of adverbial connectives in Late Middle English, or more commonly, Early Modern English, but did not have a lasting effect and died out eventually. The data analysed is retrieved from the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English. This diachronic study considers both structural (e.g. position of the sub-clause in the sentence) and external factors (e.g. text-type) and offers a comparison of the ephemeral connectives with the prototypical subordinators for each of the selected categories of adverbial relations.