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Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English: Problems of Control and Interpretation
Author(s): Bernd Kortmann (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 21 Nov. 1991
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 268 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415063914
- ISBN-13: 9780415063913
Book 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.
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About the Author
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.
