ConSOLE 31 2023 • Bielefeld University

A diachronic case study of the exclusive markers 'but' and 'just' in English

Veronica Dahlby Tveitan

University of Oslo

v.d.tveitan@ilos.uio.no
Diachronic SemanticsExclusive MarkersEnglish GrammarSemantic Reanalysis

Abstract

The functional inventory of English has changed from the 1600s to today. The exclusive markers but and just have experienced opposite trajectories, where one has become very frequent while the other is almost completely out of use. This change happened slowly over the centuries through semantic reanalysis and a chain shift, which led to the linguistic situation we recognise today where just is an often-used exclusive marker in all registers while but is barely in use and limited to formal registers.

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Veronica Dahlby Tveitan (2023). a diachronic case study of the exclusive markers 'but' and 'just' in english. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 31, edited by Iva Kovač, Paul Meisenbichler, Atefeh Shahbazi, Hadis Tamleh, Maximilian Wiesner, (pp. 350–362).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{tveitan-exclusive-2023, title={A diachronic case study of the exclusive markers 'but' and 'just' in English}, author={Veronica Dahlby Tveitan}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 31}, year={2023}, pages={350–362}, editor={Iva Kovač and Paul Meisenbichler and Atefeh Shahbazi and Hadis Tamleh and Maximilian Wiesner} }

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