Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions in Five Genres Across the History of English.
This article analyzes the frequency of three clause-level coordinating conjunctions, and, but, and or, in addition to a wide range of subordinating conjunctions across the Transhistorical Corpus of Written English (TCWE). This resource includes five genres covering seven centuries: sermons and statu...
| Publicado en: | Journal of English Linguistics Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 141 - 172 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jun2026
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