FREE ADJUNCTS AND ABSOLUTES IN ENGLISH by Bernd Kortmann ( 9780415063913 )

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Title:

FREE ADJUNCTS AND ABSOLUTES IN ENGLISH
PROBLEMS OF CONTROL AND INTERPRETATION

By:

Bernd Kortmann

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0415063914

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9780415063913

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

21 November, 1991

Series:

Germanic Linguistics

Pages:

272

Description:

This text presents a syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis of free adjuncts and absolutes in present-day English. The main focus of the book is on central problems of their use and interpretation. The work is applicable to other languages.

Synopsis:

Free adjuncts and absolutes typically function as adverbial clauses which are not overtly specified for any particular adverbial relation. The book is a non-formal, corpus based study of their current use in English. Its particular focus is on a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of their semantic indeterminacy and the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors that help resolve it.

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illustrations, 10 figures

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Imprint:

Routledge

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