A historical perspective: English speech act verbs

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs

doi:10.1075/cilt.49.24clo

In:New Vistas in Grammar: Invariance and Variation
Edited by Linda R. Waugh and Stephen Rudy
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 49] 1991
► pp. 387–406

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English speech act verbs

A historical perspective

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Published online: 27 December 1991

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.49.24clo

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