Albeit a Conjunction, Yet It Is a Clause: A Counterexample to the Unidirectionality Hypothesis?
- Author / Editor
- Molencki, Rafał.
Albeit a Conjunction, Yet It Is a Clause: A Counterexample to the Unidirectionality Hypothesis?
- Published
- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 31 (1997): 163-77.
- Description
- Traces the history of the phrase "al be it" from its late-medieval "heyday" through its reduction to a single-word conjunction to its current status as a marker of "concessivity" or contradiction. Most medieval instances are cited from Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.