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| Title: | Connecting the past and the present – a response to Pentrel |
| Author: | PETER PETRÉ |
| Linguistic Field: | Historical Linguistics; Ling & Literature |
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| Abstract: | In her article ‘Connecting the past and the present’, Meike Pentrel examines the order of main clause and adverbial clause introduced by before or after in Samuel Pepys's diary from the point of view of the cognitive literature on processing constraints. The thread that is shared by all contributions of this special issue is that of the hypothesis of uniformitarianism, which states that cognitive processes have remained constant in the documented history of humanity. Pentrel aims at corroborating this hypothesis by testing if the processing constraints found at work in this seventeenth-century ego-document examined by her are similar to those that have been observed in contemporary language. |
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This article appears IN English Language and Linguistics Vol. 21, Issue 2, which you can READ on Cambridge's site . View the full article for free in the current issue ofCambridge Extra Magazine! |
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