Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Diachronic corpus pragmatics -- 1. The components of diachronic corpus pragmatics -- 2. Intersections with focus on diachrony -- 3. Intersections with focus on corpus studies -- 4. Intersections with focus on pragmatics -- 5. Elaboration of context -- 6. Searching for pragmatic entities -- 7. The double binds of historical corpora -- 7.1 Large generalizations versus rich contextualizations -- 7.2 Normalized spelling versus faithful text reproduction and corpus annotation -- 8. The articles in this volume -- References -- Corpora and electronic resources -- Secondary sources -- Words -- I had lost sight of them then for a bit, but I went on pretty fast -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical background -- 3. Data basis and methodology -- 4. Findings -- 4.1 Pretty -- 4.2 A bit (of (a)) -- 5. Discussion: Pretty/a bit in the context of language/semantic change -- 6. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Electronic resources -- Secondary sources -- Grammaticalisation of the Finnish stance adverbial muka, 'as if, supposedly, allegedly' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Causality, reported speech, and evidentiality -- 3. The dubitative muka in Present-day Finnish -- 4. Establishing pragmatic meanings from historical material - a case study on nineteenth-century corpora -- 4.1 Ideological frames of written texts -- 4.2 Different dimensions of muka in nineteenth-century Finnish texts -- 5. Dialect data and historical pragmatic analysis -- 5.1 Introduction to Finnish dialect archives -- 5.2 Reportative and dubitative readings of muka in the dialect data -- 6. Discussion -- References -- Primary sources: Electronic corpora -- Primary sources: Printed and Internet material -- Secondary sources.

From degree/manner adverbs to pragmatic particles in Japanese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpora -- 3. Diachronic and synchronic survey of the three adverbs -- Data analysis 1 -- Data analysis 2 -- Data analysis 3 -- 4. From adverbs to pragmatic particles -- 4.1 Amari/Anmari/Anma -- Data analysis 4 -- 4.2 Bakari/Bakkari/Bakka -- Data analysis 5 -- 4.3 Yahari/Yappari/Yappa -- Data analysis 6 -- 4.4 Semantic/functional comparison of all three adverbs -- 5. On the parallel development of the three adverbs -- The Korean case -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Corpora -- Secondary sources -- Appendix: Novels selected for analysis -- Analyzing polysemy in Estonian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The many faces of täpselt -- 2.1 Adverbial use -- 2.2 Moving towards a new function -- 3. Quantitative analysis of the use and function of täpselt -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- Corpora and tools -- Secondary sources -- Appendix: Logistic regression analysis -- On the development of the Italian truth adverbs davvero and veramente -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Veramente and davvero across centuries: Some rough quantitative data -- 3. The wide multifunctionality of veramente in Old Italian -- 4. Towards intersubjectification: Veramente as a strategy for a mitigated rebuttal -- 5. The rise of davvero -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Corpora -- Secondary sources -- Phrases and clauses -- "Strong churlish purging Pills" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Brief overview of earlier studies on attributive adjectives -- 3. Data and methods -- 4. Findings -- 4.1 Premodification of nouns -- 4.2 Frequencies of multi-adjectival premodifiers -- 4.3 Frequency of recurring multi-adjectival premodifiers -- 5. Pragmatics of multi-adjectival premodifiers -- 5.1 Classifiers -- 5.2 Evaluative descriptors -- 5.3 Humoral descriptors.

5.4 General descriptors -- 5.5 Outliers -- 6. Tentative conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- On the origin of clausal parenthetical constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hypotheses on the origin of clausal parentheticals -- 3. Typology of constructions with seem and impersonal think -- 3.1 Predicative constructions -- 3.2 Raising constructions -- 3.3 It + think/seem + finite subject clause -- 3.4 Parenthetical constructions -- 3.5 Comparative constructions -- 4. Potential ambiguity between matrix clauses and parentheticals -- 5. Looking into parentheticals with impersonal think and seem in the HC -- 5.1 Parenthetical types -- 5.2 Early examples -- 5.3 Position of think- and seem-parentheticals -- 6. Assessing the hypotheses: Evidence from the HC -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Tracing the history of deontic NCI patterns in Dutch -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The ACI and NCI constructions of English and Dutch: Form, function, and diachrony -- 3. The development of the deontic NCI in English -- 4. Deontic NCIs in Dutch corpora -- 5. The source of the Dutch deontic NCI -- 6. Verwacht worden te: Further evidence of English influence -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Corpora -- Secondary sources -- Front field negation in spoken Swedish -- 1. Introduction and objectives of the study -- 2. Use of front field negation in Present-day Swedish -- 3. The diachronic corpus -- 4. The diachronic distribution of front field negation in drama dialogue -- 5. Contexts for front field negation in drama dialogue -- 6. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Datasets -- Secondary sources -- Utterances and dialogues -- Complimenting in the history of American English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods of corpus-based speech act studies -- 3. Complimenting -- 4. Method -- 5. Results and discussion -- 6. Conclusion.

Acknowledgments -- References -- Data -- Secondary sources -- Exploring verbal aggression in English historical texts using USAS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Existing work on (verbal) aggression -- 2.1 Strategic ambivalence within a courtroom context -- 2.2 Metapragmatic framing strategies -- 3. Some preliminary findings -- 3.1 Potential "aggression-related" words/phrases found by USAS -- 4. Issues uncovered - and some possible solutions -- References -- Appendix: A selection of words/phrases potentially indicative of (verbal) aggression -- A matter of tradition and good advice -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical pragmatics: The three perspectives of (historical) pragmatics and the traditions of counselling -- 3. Traditions and good advice: Counselling in Old Spanish texts -- 3.1 Combining qualitative and quantitative methods in corpus pragmatics -- 3.2 The philological approach: Counselling between decision-making and transfer of knowledge -- 4. Testing the tools: Counselling dialogues, lexical affinities and lexical clustering -- 4.1 The lexicon of counselling: Co-occurrence and visualisation through Treecloud -- 4.2 Counselling in contrast: Analysing lexical clusters through log-likelihood ratio tests -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Corpus texts and tools -- Secondary sources -- Language index -- Name index -- Subject index.