On the Evolution of Inferential Practices in Late Modern English and Present-Day English Court Opinions
Journal of English Linguistics
Published online on July 07, 2026
Abstract
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In argumentative text types, evidential markers serve to construct credibility, authority, and power. Informed by corpus-assisted discourse analysis, this paper investigates the development of adverbial, phrasal, and clausal inferential adverbials in the ...
In argumentative text types, evidential markers serve to construct credibility, authority, and power. Informed by corpus-assisted discourse analysis, this paper investigates the development of adverbial, phrasal, and clausal inferential adverbials in the ...