Abstract
This chapter investigates the expression of stance in eighteenth-century medical English, based on data from the LMEMT corpus. The focus is on three types of stance that-clauses, and the aim of the analysis is to document the frequency trends and patterns of variation in the data, compare them with those identified for medical texts from previous centuries, and provide a functional description of their use within the framework of local grammar. With respect to the frequencies of stance that-clauses across different sub-registers, the eighteenth century represents a period of stylistic continuation. The degree of phraseological variation is considerable, and the analysis demonstrates the usefulness of a local grammar approach to account for this variation.
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