David M. Bell
List of John Benjamins publications in which David M. Bell is involved.
Articles
2007 Sentence-initial And and But in academic writing Pragmatics 17:2, pp. 183–201 | Article
Prescriptivists have long proscribed sentence-initial And (SIA), and sentence-initial But (SIB). However, SIA and SIB are increasingly used in newspapers and style guides have softened strictures against their use. Moreover, SIA and SIB are amongst the most frequently occurring sentence-initial… read more
1998 Cancellative discourse markers: A core/periphery approach Pragmatics 8:4, pp. 515–541 | Article