Bernd Kortmann

Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English (eBook, PDF)

Problems of Control and Interpretation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a corpus-based syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis of free adjuncts and absolutes in present-day English. The main focus of the book is on central problems of their use and interpretation.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136122200
• Artikelnr.: 39681974

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Background
Chapter 1 The structural diversity of free adjuncts and absolutes
Chapter 2 Problems of terminology
Chapter 3 Previous research
Chapter 4 Aim and scope of the study
Chapter 5 The corpus
Part II The subject in free adjuncts and absolutes
Chapter 6 Control in free adjuncts
Chapter 7 The subject in absolutes
Chapter 8 The nature of the subject in a definition of free adjuncts and absolutes
Part III The interpretation of free adjuncts and absolutes
Chapter 9 General remarks
Chapter 10 Individual semantic relations
Chapter 11 Factors influencing the interpretation
Part IV Implications for semantic and pragmatic theory
Chapter 12 Free adjuncts and absolutes as instances of minimization in language
Chapter 13 Free adjuncts and absolutes and the semantics-pragmatics distinction