The extender tags and the like and or something in late Modern English: A formal and functional approach

Extender tags can be defined as a class of expressions of the type and stuff and or something that are added to the end of phrases, sometimes in clause-final position in order to extend otherwise complete utterances (Overstreet 1999). Although such expressions have been broadly studied in present-da...

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Autor: Pérez González, Alba
Formato: tesis doctoral
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositorio:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
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spelling The extender tags and the like and or something in late Modern English: A formal and functional approachPérez González, AlbaMaterias::Investigación::57 Lingüística::5702 Lingüística diacrónica::570201 Lingüística históricaExtender tags can be defined as a class of expressions of the type and stuff and or something that are added to the end of phrases, sometimes in clause-final position in order to extend otherwise complete utterances (Overstreet 1999). Although such expressions have been broadly studied in present-day English from very diverse perspectives, a thorough historical examination of these forms is still lacking. The aim of this dissertation is to offer a corpus-based analysis of the extender tags and the like and or something in the late Modern English period (1700 - 1900), with data from the Eighteenth Century Fiction and the Nineteenth Century Fiction. The main focus of the thesis is on the formal and textual features of these tags, as well as on the functions they perform during this period. Attention is also paid to their historical development from the point of view of grammaticalization.López Couso, María JoséUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Escola de Doutoramento Internacional (EDIUS)20212021-01-0120212021-01-01doctoral thesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10347/26486reponame:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostelainstname:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/264862026-06-15T12:47:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The extender tags and the like and or something in late Modern English: A formal and functional approach
title The extender tags and the like and or something in late Modern English: A formal and functional approach
spellingShingle The extender tags and the like and or something in late Modern English: A formal and functional approach
Pérez González, Alba
Materias::Investigación::57 Lingüística::5702 Lingüística diacrónica::570201 Lingüística histórica
title_short The extender tags and the like and or something in late Modern English: A formal and functional approach
title_full The extender tags and the like and or something in late Modern English: A formal and functional approach
title_fullStr The extender tags and the like and or something in late Modern English: A formal and functional approach
title_full_unstemmed The extender tags and the like and or something in late Modern English: A formal and functional approach
title_sort The extender tags and the like and or something in late Modern English: A formal and functional approach
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pérez González, Alba
author Pérez González, Alba
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv López Couso, María José
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Escola de Doutoramento Internacional (EDIUS)
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Materias::Investigación::57 Lingüística::5702 Lingüística diacrónica::570201 Lingüística histórica
topic Materias::Investigación::57 Lingüística::5702 Lingüística diacrónica::570201 Lingüística histórica
description Extender tags can be defined as a class of expressions of the type and stuff and or something that are added to the end of phrases, sometimes in clause-final position in order to extend otherwise complete utterances (Overstreet 1999). Although such expressions have been broadly studied in present-day English from very diverse perspectives, a thorough historical examination of these forms is still lacking. The aim of this dissertation is to offer a corpus-based analysis of the extender tags and the like and or something in the late Modern English period (1700 - 1900), with data from the Eighteenth Century Fiction and the Nineteenth Century Fiction. The main focus of the thesis is on the formal and textual features of these tags, as well as on the functions they perform during this period. Attention is also paid to their historical development from the point of view of grammaticalization.
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