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Free adjuncts and absolutes typically function as adverbial clauses which are not overtly specified for any particular adverbial relation. The book is a non-for

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 i

The goal of this book is to investigate the semantics of absolute constructions in English; specifically, my object is to provide an explanation for the semanti

Research on language universals and research on linguistic typology are not antagonistic, but rather complementary approaches to the same fundamental problem: t

The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and ling