TY - BOOK ID - 77939814 TI - Grammaticalization - theory and data AU - Hancil, Sylvie AU - König, Ekkehard PY - 2014 SN - 9027269726 9789027269720 9789027259271 9027259275 1322110166 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Linguistic change KW - Computational linguistics. KW - Automatic language processing KW - Language and languages KW - Language data processing KW - Linguistics KW - Natural language processing (Linguistics) KW - Applied linguistics KW - Cross-language information retrieval KW - Mathematical linguistics KW - Multilingual computing KW - Change, Linguistic KW - Language change KW - Historical linguistics KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Philology KW - Grammaticalization KW - Data processing KW - Grammar, Comparative UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77939814 AB - Mulder and Thompson (2006, 2008) point out that the final hanging but ([X but]) developed from initial but (X [but Y]) through a sequence of formal reanalyses, and insightfully observe the functional and formal parallelism between the development of the hanging type of final but and the final particalization of the Japanese subordinator -kedo. The present article demonstrates that but (and and as well) can perform a terminal bracketing function and serve as functional subordinators in spoken American English, and that they behave like final particles when the sentences are truncated. Although ER -