But, Only, Just: Focusing Adverbial Change in Modern English 1500-1900, Zväzok 51

17th century adjective adverbial focus analysis associated Biber carrier clause century Chapter clausal colloquial comedies complement contexts definite diachronic diaries direct speech discussed distributions Early Modern English educational treatises EModE exclusive adverbial exclusive focusing adverbials exclusive paradigm extralinguistic factors favour FC length focus constituent frequency function functional constituent further Grammar grammaticalization Helsinki homomorphs instance intensifier Jacobson John John Heywood König Language letters lexical linguistic LModE London Mary meaning MERELY ModE corpus ModE period Modern English modifier narrow scope negation negative Nevalainen notion noun occur oral genres overtly quantified Oxford Oxford Text Archive phrase polysemy pragmatic predicate preferences prepositional present corpus preverbal position quantified FCs quantitative prototypes Quirk referential Rissanen Romaine Rydén scalar reading selection semantic change sentence sermons SIMPLY structure subject complement suggests synonymy syntactic Syntax Table Taglicht tion Tottie typical variable rule analysis variation verb words