Connectives In The History Of English

Connectives in the History of English AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE General Editor E.F.K. KOERNER (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin) Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY Advisory Editorial Board Lyle Campbell (Salt Lake City); Sheila Embleton (Toronto) Brian D. Joseph (Columbus, Ohio); John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) Manfred Krifka (Berlin); E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.) Joseph C. Salmons (Madison, Wis.); Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln) Volume 283 Connectives in the History of English Edited by Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin Connectives in the History of English Edited by Ursula Lenker University of Munich Anneli Meurman-Solin University of Helsinki JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 4- The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American ­National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (13th : 2004 : Vienna University)   Connectives in the history of English : [selected papers from 13th ICEHL, Vienna, 23-28 August 2004] / edited by Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin.    p. cm. -- (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, issn 0304-0763 ; v.283)  Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. English language--History--Congresses. 2. English language--Grammar--Congresses. 3. English language-Connectives--Congresses. 4. English language--Grammar, Historical--Congresses. I. Lenker, Ursula. II. Title. PE1075.I57    2007 420'.9--dc22 2007011997 ISBN 978 90 272 4798 8 (Hb; alk. paper) © 2007 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. • P.O.Box 36224 • 1020 ME Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • P.O.Box 27519 • Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 • USA JB[v.20020404] Prn:30/05/2007; 16:56 F: CI283CO.tex / p.1 (49-122) Table of contents Foreword Introduction Ursula Lenker and Anneli Meurman-Solin Adverbial connectives within and beyond adverbial subordination: The history of lest María José López-Couso vii 1 11 To as a connective in the history of English Bettelou Los 31 From oþ to till: Early loss of an adverbial subordinator Matti Rissanen 61 Rise of the adverbial conjunctions {any, each, every} time Laurel J. Brinton 77 The evolution of since in medieval English Rafał Molencki 97 Grammaticalization and syntactic polyfunctionality: The case of albeit Elina Sorva 115 On the subjectification of adverbial clause connectives: Semantic and pragmatic considerations in the development of while-clauses Ana I. González-Cruz A relevance-theoretic view on issues in the history of clausal connectives Carsten Breul 145 167 Forhwi ‘because’: Shifting deictics in the history of English causal connection 193 Ursula Lenker Conditionals in Early Modern English texts Claudia Claridge 229 JB[v.20020404] Prn:30/05/2007; 16:56  F: CI283CO.tex / p.2 (122-139) Table of contents Relatives as sentence-level connectives Anneli Meurman-Solin 255 ‘Connective profiles’ in the history of English texts: Aspects of orality and literacy Thomas Kohnen 289 Word index 309 Subject index 313 JB[v.20020404] Prn:2/05/2007; 16:21 F