Metonymic Bridges in Modal Shifts

Human Cognitive Processing

Volumn 4, Issue , 1999, Pages 193-210

  Goossens, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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EID: 85190641543     PISSN: 13876724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1075/hcp.4.11goo     Document Type: Article

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1. My terminology for the differentiation into states of affairs is in line with that of Functional Grammar (cf. Dik 1989).
2. The samples were collected randomly by Ludo Lejeune. For details, cf. Lejeune (1995 and 1996).
3. The quotations from LOLU are presented in a somewhat simplified form. The diacritic signs retained are #, which marks intonation units, * *, which signals overlap, and those that indicate pauses of varying lengths.
4. The abbreviations for the different texts are taken over from the Helsinki Corpus. The sources, in the order of their first occurrence in the examples quoted as (7)–(26), are as follows: CEDIAR3B = Evelyn, The Diary of John Evelyn; CEOFFIC3 = Letters, Non-private; CEPRIV = Letters, Private; CETRAV3B = Fryer, A New Account of East India; CMGAYTRY = Gaytridge, Dan Jon Gaytridge’s Sermon; CEBOETH2 = Elizabeth, Boethius; CMBOETH = Chaucer, Boethius; CMCAXPRO = Caxton, The Prologues and Epilogues; CESCIE1B = Record, the Path-way … of Geometrie; CEEDUC2A = Brinsley, Ludus Literarius or the Grammar Schoole; CEHAND3B = Langford, Plain and Full Instructions to Raise All Sorts of Fruit-trees; CMCTPROS = Chaucer, The Parson’s Tale; CMSIEGE = The Siege of Jerusalem in Prose; CEFICT1B = Harman, A Caveat … for Commen Cursetors; CESERM3A = Tillotson, Sermons; CEEDUC1B = Ascham, the Scholemaster; CETRI2B = The Trial of the Earl of Essex; CEDIAR3A = The Diary of Samuel Pepys. For further details, see Kytö (1993).
5. The notation [{.....}] indicates an italicized emendation in the source text. Note that the text makes sense with and without the emendation; without the emendation we have to read been as the equivalent of Modern English be.
6. Again in the terminology of Functional Grammar, i.e., dynamic, but not controlled. Note that in (16) the Process character is the result of passivization.
7. The notation (^.....^) in the Helsinki Corpus indicates a typographical shift from the basic font in the source text.
8. For a critical discussion with respect to contemporary must, cf. Goossens (1996: 2.3.3)
9. This process of subjectification is in focus in Goossens, forthcoming.
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