An enunciative description of three concessive sentence adverbs in English: yet, however, nevertheless
Concessive constructions involve a complex operation whereby a speaker marks recognition, if not endorsement, of an inferential relationship obtaining between two states of affairs p and q, while at the same time overriding this relationship in context. Such constructions may distance the speaker fr...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/3920 |