[Download] "Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English" by Bernd Kortmann ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English
- Author : Bernd Kortmann
- Release Date : January 27, 2013
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 5744 KB
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.