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Peer reviewedBruthiaux, Paul – Applied Linguistics, 1995
Reviews the evolution of semicolon use in English, examining the frequency of semicolons, colons, and dashes in grammar, language, and linguistic books from the mid-16th century to the present. Concludes that after flourishing in the 17th and 18th centuries, the semicolon may have become a marginal component of the English punctuation system. (42…
Descriptors: Books, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English
