Germanic Linguistics

Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English: Problems of Control and Interpretation

1st Edition

By Bernd Kortmann
January 30, 2014

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...