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Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English

Bernd Kortmann
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      This text presents a corpus-based syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis of free adjuncts and absolutes in present-day English. The major function of these constructions is to serve as adverbial clauses, most frequently without any overt specification of which semantic relation (time, cause or condition) they express in a given complex sentence. The main focus of the book is on central problems of their use and interpretation. These include the range of their semantic indeterminacy, the factors that help resolve it, and, for free adjuncts, the identification of their underlying subject (or controller). Its scope and the size of its database (over 1700 constructions) make this book useful reading for linguists working in descriptive or theoretical studies of English grammar. However, the basic issues addressed in the book are not confined to English: its findings and hypotheses will be important for linguists concerned with the same constructions in other languages. This book should be of interest to advanced students, teachers and researchers in linguistics.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Bernd Kortmann EAN: 9780415063913 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 453 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 1991-11-21 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      English, Grammar, syntax and morphology

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      This text presents a corpus-based syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis of free adjuncts and absolutes in present-day English. The major function of these constructions is to serve as adverbial clauses, most frequently without any overt specification of which semantic relation (time, cause or condition) they express in a given complex sentence. The main focus of the book is on central problems of their use and interpretation. These include the range of their semantic indeterminacy, the factors that help resolve it, and, for free adjuncts, the identification of their underlying subject (or controller). Its scope and the size of its database (over 1700 constructions) make this book useful reading for linguists working in descriptive or theoretical studies of English grammar. However, the basic issues addressed in the book are not confined to English: its findings and hypotheses will be important for linguists concerned with the same constructions in other languages. This book should be of interest to advanced students, teachers and researchers in linguistics.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Bernd Kortmann EAN: 9780415063913 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 453 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 1991-11-21 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      English, Grammar, syntax and morphology

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