<span class='italic'>That’s Luck, If You Ask Me</span>: The Rise of an Intersubjective Comment Clause

doi:10.1017/9781108303576.009

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Print publication year: 2019
Online publication date: October 2019

Chapter 8 - That’s Luck, If You Ask Me: The Rise of an Intersubjective Comment Clause

from Part II - Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change

By Laurel J. Brinton

Edited by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Universidade de Vigo, Spain, Emma Moore, University of Sheffield, Linda van Bergen, University of Edinburgh, Willem B. Hollmann, Lancaster University
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576.009
pp 190-209

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If you ask me is used in Present-day English (PDE hereafter) as a modalised comment on the following or preceding clause, as in these examples by linguists on the American Dialect Society Listserve Archive

Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax

Chapter 8 - That’s Luck, If You Ask Me: The Rise of an Intersubjective Comment Clause

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