Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English

Problems of Control and Interpretation

• Author(s): Bernd Kortmann,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 272
• ISBN_10: 1136122206
  ISBN_13: 9781136122200
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... 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.