Bernd Kortmann

Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English

Problems of Control and Interpretation. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 272 Seiten
ISBN 041586769X
EAN 9780415867696
Veröffentlicht Februar 2014
Verlag/Hersteller Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

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Beschreibung

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.

Portrait

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.