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| Title: | The distal demonstrative as discourse marker in Beowulf |
| Author: | Richard L. Epstein |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Institution: | Rutgers University |
| Linguistic Field: | Ling & Literature; Pragmatics |
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English, Old
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| Abstract: | The literature on the distal demonstrative se in Old English has mainly concentrated on its use as a marker of definiteness (referent identifiability) and deixis. In this article, I focus instead on demonstrative uses that have received much less attention in previous work. Drawing on data from Beowulf, I argue that the distal demonstrative determiner also serves a variety of discourse-pragmatic functions, such as indicating the relative importance of referents; topic continuity; or chapter boundaries. |
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This article appears in English Language and Linguistics Vol. 15, Issue 1, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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