Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change
(2018)
Book Chapter
Whitt, R. J. (2018). Using diachronic corpora to understand the connection between genre and language change. In R. J. Whitt (Ed.), Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change (1-16). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.85.01whi
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Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change (2018)
Book
Whitt, R. J. (Ed.). (2018). Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change. John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.85
“And all this is spoken of the naturall byrth . . .”: Metadiscourse in The Birth of Mankind and its German source text, Rosengarten (2018)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. J. (2018). “And all this is spoken of the naturall byrth . . .”: Metadiscourse in The Birth of Mankind and its German source text, Rosengarten. English Text Construction, 11(2), 225-255. https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00010.whiThis paper provides an examination of the use of metadiscourse in the two versions of The Birth of Mankind, the first midwifery manual to be printed in English during the sixteenth century. It is a translation of a Latin text, which itself is a trans... Read More about “And all this is spoken of the naturall byrth . . .”: Metadiscourse in The Birth of Mankind and its German source text, Rosengarten.
Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German (2018)
Journal Article
Whitt, R. J. (2018). Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 19(1), 122–149. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00013.whiThis paper provides an overview of verbal markers of evidentiality in Early Modern German (1650-1800) in light of Boye’s propositional scope hypothesis. The markers under investigation include the semi-auxiliary scheinen ‘to shine, appear, seem’ and... Read More about Evidentiality and propositional scope in early modern German.