Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English
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Adverbial Clauses
Author_Bernd Kortmann
Category=CBX
Category=CFK
Category=DS
clause
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Eyes Bright
Free Adjuncts
HSS
IHT
individual
Individual Level Predicates
interclausal
Interclausal Relations
matrix
Matrix Clause
Matrix Proposition
Matrix Subject
Modal Verb
Negated Adjuncts
Non-finite Constructions
noun
phrase
Pragmatic Inferences
proposition
relation
Search Domain
semantic
Semantic Indeterminacy
Semantic Relation
SFA
Speech Act Qualifier
Stage Level Predicates
subject
Truth Conditional Meaning
Verbless Clause
Verbless Construction
Vice Versa
Wilson's Relevance Theory
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- ISBN 9780415063913
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Nov 1991
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Bernd Kortmann received his university education at Trier, Lancaster, and Oxford. He is currently junior research fellow at the Free University of Berlin, and was previously at the University of Hannover. Apart from his work in this area, he has published essays and articles on tense and aspect, lexical semantics, grammaticalization, and functional categories.
