Discourse markers in Old English: Soþlice and witodlice

Lenker, Ursula

doi:10.1075/slcs.53.12len

In:Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English
Edited by Olga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach and Dieter Stein
[Studies in Language Companion Series 53] 2000
► pp. 229–249

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Soþlice and witodlice

Discourse markers in Old English

Ursula Lenker | University of Munich

Published online: 13 November 2000

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.53.12len

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