Book contents
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Studies in English Language
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Analysing English Syntax Past and Present
- Part I Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change
- Part II Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change
- Chapter 6 How Patterns Spread: The To-Infinitival Complement as a Case of Diffusional Change, or ‘To-Infinitives, and Beyond!’
- Chapter 7 Me Liketh/Lotheth but I Loue/Hate: Impersonal/Non-Impersonal Boundaries in Old and Middle English
- Chapter 8 That’s Luck, If You Ask Me: The Rise of an Intersubjective Comment Clause
- Chapter 9 Misreading and Language Change: A Foray into Qualitative Historical Linguistics
- Chapter 10 The Conjunction and in Phrasal and Clausal Structures in the Old Bailey Corpus
- Part III Comparative and Typological Approaches
- References
- Index
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
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2019
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Studies in English Language
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Analysing English Syntax Past and Present
- Part I Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change
- Part II Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change
- Chapter 6 How Patterns Spread: The To-Infinitival Complement as a Case of Diffusional Change, or ‘To-Infinitives, and Beyond!’
- Chapter 7 Me Liketh/Lotheth but I Loue/Hate: Impersonal/Non-Impersonal Boundaries in Old and Middle English
- Chapter 8 That’s Luck, If You Ask Me: The Rise of an Intersubjective Comment Clause
- Chapter 9 Misreading and Language Change: A Foray into Qualitative Historical Linguistics
- Chapter 10 The Conjunction and in Phrasal and Clausal Structures in the Old Bailey Corpus
- Part III Comparative and Typological Approaches
- References
- Index
Summary
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
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- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax , pp. 190 - 209Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019