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Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English - Problems of Control and Interpretation (Hardcover, New)
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Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English - Problems of Control and Interpretation (Hardcover, New)
Series: Germanic Linguistics
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"Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English" presents a corpus-based
syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic analysis of free adjuncts and
absolutes in present-day English. The major function of these
constructions is to serve as adverbial clauses, most frequently
without any overt specification of which semantic relation they
express in a given complex sentence.
The central problems of the use and interpretation of both free
adjuncts and absolutes is the main focus of the book. These include
the range and nature of their semantic indeterminacy, the factors
that help resolve it, and, for free adjuncts, the identification of
their underlying subject.
As many of the basic issues addressed in the book are not confined
to English, its findings and hypotheses should also attract the
attention of linguists interested in these relevant constructions
in other languages. "Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English" makes
important and challenging claims with regard to the syntactic,
semantic, and pragmatic phenomena that may influence the
interpretation of these constructions, and, with respect to the way
diverse interpretive behavior of free adjunct and absolutes is
predictable, from higher functional and pragmatic principles. The
conclusions found in this volume will be of great benefit to
scholars working in the fields of syntax, semantics, pragmatics,
and cognitive and text linguistics.
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