Chen, Rinelle: Even and Yet as Local Force Morphologies: Penetration, Obstruction, and Overflow in Everyday English

This paper examines two highly frequent English words that do not operate identically in the formation of understanding: even and yet. Existing analyses typically classify even under scalarity, focus, emphasis, or unexpectedness, and yet under temporality, contrast, concession, or incompletion. While these classifications are descriptively useful, they tend to obscure how these words actually guide the formation of understanding within sentences when treated solely as functional labels. The cent