I-XVI -- Chapter 1. "Mystery features" of Old and Middle English -- Chapter 2. Conceptual background -- Chapter 3. Middle English gan -- Chapter 4. Middle and Early Modern English anon -- Chapter 5. Old English episode boundary markers -- Chapter 6. Middle English episode boundary markers -- Chapter 7. Old English hwæt -- Chapter 8. Middle English I gesse -- Chapter 9. Concluding remarks -- Appendices -- Appendix A. Substantive studies of individual pragmatic markers in Modern English -- Appendix B. Typologies of pragmatic markers in Modern English -- Appendix C. Occurrences of gan in Troilus and Criseyde -- Appendix D. Cooccurrence of adverbials with gan in Troilus and Criseyde -- Appendix E. Episodic structure and occurrences of anon and gan in Book II of Troilus and Criseyde -- Appendix F. Occurrences of anon in Books 6, 11, and 16 of Le morte d'Arthur -- Appendix G. Bifel-constructions in The Canterbury tales -- Appendix H. Bifel-constructions in Le morte d'Arthur -- Appendix I. Preposed whan-clauses in "The Knight's tale" -- Appendix J. Preposed whan-clauses in Book 16 of Le morte d'Arthur -- Appendix K. First-person epistemic parentheticals in The Canterbury tales -- Appendix L. First-person epistemic parentheticals in Troilus and Criseyde -- Appendix M. Occurrences of God woot in The Canterbury tales -- Appendix N. Occurrences of God woot in Troilus and Criseyde -- Appendix O. Occurrences of trusteth me wel in The Canterbury tales -- Notes -- References -- Index