10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONCESSIVE»
Discover the use of
concessive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
concessive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English
The. grammaticalization. of. concessive. markers. in. Early. Modern. English.
Guohua. Chen. Beijing Foreign Studies University I. Introduction Since "all
languages have devices for linking clauses together into what are called complex
...
Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach, Dieter Stein, 2000
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Adverbial Subordination in English: A Functional Approach
3.3.13 Clauses of Concessive-Condition Concessive-Conditional clauses share
with (potential) Conditional clauses the feature of non-presupposition, as well as
non-factuality, but at the same time they express a certain concessive meaning.
Mar?a Jes? P?rez Quintero, 2002
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Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe
9. Concessive. conditionals. in. the. languages. of. Europe. 1. Introduction The
construction type whose properties across the languages of Europe will be
examined in this chapter is exemplified by the following English examples, each
of ...
Johan van der Auwera, Dónall Ó Baoill, 1998
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Constructing
Concessive Conditionals in Japanese
This thesis investigates the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic nature of concessive conditionals, e.g. even if sentences in English.
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Information Structure in a Cross-linguistic Perspective
Interpreting concessive adverbial markers in English and Norwegian discourse
Thorstein Fretheim Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Abstract The first part of this paper is a comparison of concessive markers in ...
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Types of Variation: Diachronic, Dialectical and Typological ...
A sense of surprise, unexpectedness, or incompatibility has also often been
suggested as definitive of a concessive relation. Since within the scope of this
chapter I cannot discuss the definition of concessivity in detail, I will simply go
with the ...
Terttu Nevalainen, Juhani Klemola, Mikko Laitinen, 2006
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Historical Semantics, Historical Word Formation
Introduction Although a popular topic during the first half of this century,
concessive sentences have received relatively little attention in the last three
decades, both from a historical and from a synchronic point of view. Those earlier
historical ...
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Cause, Condition, Concession, Contrast: Cognitive and ...
We will now see that these discourse functions rucely match the way in which a/
fAowg/z-constructions realize the concessive Schema. For this purpose they
were compared with the most frequent realization of concessive pattems in our ...
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Bernd Kortmann, 2000
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Meaning Through Language Contrast
Accordingly, the veridicality hypothesis, which claims that indicative is selected if
the sentence is taken to be true, otherwise subjunctive being selected, does not
explain the selection of subjunctive in concessive clauses in Portuguese, French
...
Katarzyna Jaszczolt, Ken Turner, 2003
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Studies in Middle English Linguistics
A concessive clause expresses a contrast, an adversative idea to the proposition
included in the main clause, something that comes as a surprise, contrary to what
is expected in the light of the contents of the main clause (cf. Quirk 1954:6 or ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONCESSIVE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
concessive is used in the context of the following news items.
Russian daily: Electric Networks of Armenia may be sold
... hike in Armenia, President Serzh Sargsyan said on June 27 that ENA may be nationalized and handed over to concessive management. «Aysor, Jun 15»
China: beyond the good news
Which is likely to have made their negotiators a bit more concessive. Such is life, and there is nothing intrinsically wrong with that. It is a truism ... «Buenos Aires Herald, May 15»
Looking back on the life of a king
Pro-Salafists now think that the royal family is concessive and too flexible toward their religious sect. This escalated in 1970 when the marginal ... «Daily Sabah, Jan 15»
Why older women are sexier on screen
Hollywood legend, Joan Collins, 81, alerted me to that most ghastly platitude: the concessive (and condescending) compliment. La Collins rolls ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 14»
Prof. from UST-Minnesota Tries to Justify Same-Sex Marriage …
It is clear from Romans 1: 18-27 that this concessive statement would not apply to same-sex couples.” Seeman clarified that the main pastoral ... «The Cardinal Newman Society, Nov 14»
Government blocks bank accounts of aid organization
Criticizing the government's concessive attitude towards the settlement process being conducted between the government and the outlawed ... «Today's Zaman, Oct 14»
Countdown to the first world war
Apparently concessive while really conceding nothing, it allowed Wilhelm to propose a face-saving “Halt in Belgrade” policy, leaving open the ... «Financial Times, Jul 14»
W Taipei announces appointment of new Hotel Manager, Taieb TJ …
“My father was a Banker and Chairman of hotels, so everything needed to be well planed, concessive, detailed and had to make sense. «ITCM, Feb 14»
Jil Sander Fails to Rock Boat, But Will Please Fans
... fashion label needs to have a central force that can transmit the essence of the brand's message in a clear and concessive way to the public. «The Business of Fashion, Feb 14»
University's Vice President suspected of plagiarizing doctorate
The arguments and information in the paragraphs the reporters chose randomly to read in Luong's thesis are really concessive with that in ... «VietNamNet Bridge, Dec 13»
