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Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective - A Corpus-Based Study (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective - A Corpus-Based Study (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Series: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
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This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic
variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic
distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles
assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be
categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and
appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three
hypotactic expansions in the relation system of clause complexes in
Systemic Functional Linguistics, i.e., elaboration, extension and
enhancement. This research, therefore, redefines absolute clauses
in the framework of SFL and proposes four syntactic types of
absolute clauses: absolute paratactic clauses (elaboration),
absolute hypotactic clauses (extension and enhancement), absolute
projected clauses (fact and act) and absolute embedded clauses
(subject). Based on the Brown family corpora, BNC and COHA, this
research finds that different function types of absolute clauses
differ in terms of their stylistic and diachronic distributions,
and both nominative and accusative cases are acceptable.
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