Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English: Problems of Control and InterpretationRoutledge, 27.09.2013 - 272 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Problems of terminology | 17 |
Previous research | 24 |
Aim and scope of the study | 35 |
The subject in free adjuncts and absolutes | 41 |
The subject in absolutes | 91 |
The nature of the subject in a definition of free | 102 |
Individual semantic relations | 151 |
Factors influencing the interpretation | 199 |
Implications for semantic and pragmatic theory | 205 |
Notes | 219 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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