Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English
Problems of Control and Interpretation| By: | Bernd Kortmann |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415867696 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781136122286 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1991 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.