Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English
Problems of Control and Interpretation
By Bernd Kortmann
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-06391-3
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 21st November 1991
- Pages: 272
- Illustrations: 10 text figures
About the Book
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.
