Lenker Ursula. Argument and Rhetoric: Adverbial Connectors in the History of English

Gruyter Mouton, 2010. — 310 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 64).The book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English. The author analyses different characteristics of the make-up, functions and use of connectives, and considers morphological and syntactic factors as well as pragmatic, text linguistic and socio-cultural aspects.