“We’ve only missed an emergent phenomenon in Standard British English!”: the mirative ONLY in contemporary colloquial English
This article takes a look at what is hypothesised to be a recent phenomenon restricted to some forms of contemporary British English, whereby the restrictive adverb ONLY seems to have become a discourse marker signalling counter-expectation or undesirability. The article paper begins by examining th...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2018-06-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/erea/6222 |