Free adjuncts and absolutes in English : problems of control and interpretation

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Free adjuncts and absolutes in English : problems of control and interpretation

Bernd Kortmann

(Germanic linguistics)

Routledge, 1991

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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hanover, 1989

Bibliography: p. [236]-243

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • Part I Background
  • Chapter 1 The structural diversity of free adjuncts and absolutes
  • Chapter 2 Problems of terminology
  • Chapter 3 Previous research
  • Chapter 4 Aim and scope of the study
  • Chapter 5 The corpus
  • Part II The subject in free adjuncts and absolutes
  • Chapter 6 Control in free adjuncts
  • Chapter 7 The subject in absolutes
  • Chapter 8 The nature of the subject in a definition of free adjuncts and absolutes
  • Part III The interpretation of free adjuncts and absolutes
  • Chapter 9 General remarks
  • Chapter 10 Individual semantic relations
  • Chapter 11 Factors influencing the interpretation
  • Part IV Implications for semantic and pragmatic theory
  • Chapter 12 Free adjuncts and absolutes as instances of minimization in language
  • Chapter 13 Free adjuncts and absolutes and the semantics-pragmatics distinction

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  • NCID
    BA13423408
  • ISBN
    • 0415063914
  • LCCN
    91010122
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 253 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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