The Late Modern period is the first in the history of English for which an unprecedented
wealth of textual material exists. Using increasingly sophisticated databases, the …

This article focuses on the diachronic development of English turn out and Spanish resultar
'turn out'mirative constructions. Having undergone processes of semantic generalization …

Present-day English turn out is used in several constructions with mirative and evidential
overtones. Among these, the raised subject construction and the impersonal construction …

This paper presents a contrastive study of on the one hand ('t) schijnt ('it seems'), a form of
the Dutch verb of appearance schijnen ('seem'), and on the other hand, a similar use of the …

Abstract Comparing ('t) schijnt to (zo) schijnt het (lit.'so seems it'), the parenthetical use of the
verb schijnen 'seem', we argue that ('t) schijnt is best analysed as an evidential particle …