Discourse Functions at the Left and Right Periphery. Cross-linguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change

Product Description
This volume tests the hypothesis that elements at the left periphery of discourse units have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role.
About the Author
Kate Beeching is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Her main research interest is in the impact of sociolinguistic, pragmatic and interactional factors on semantic change.

Ulrich Detges is Professor of Romance Linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. His main fields of interest are syntax, lexicology and pragmatics, and diachronic change.

Contributors are: Kate Beeching, Liesbeth Degand, Ulrich Detges, Chiara Ghezzi, Stephanie H. Kim, Piera Molinelli, Noriko Onodera, Sung-Ock S. Sohn, Elizabeth Traugott, Richard Waltereit, Yu-Fang Wang, Tak-Sum Wong, Foong Ha Yap, and Ying Yang.