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Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective: A Corpus-Based Study

Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective: A Corpus-Based Study

He, Qingshun
Yang, Bingjun

Hardcover

Series: M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics

Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 3662463660
ISBN13: 9783662463666
Publisher: Springer
Published: Mar 23 2015
Pages: 178
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
​This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three hypotactic expansions in the relation system of clause complexes in Systemic Functional Linguistics, i.e., elaboration, extension and enhancement. This research, therefore, redefines absolute clauses in the framework of SFL and proposes four syntactic types of absolute clauses: absolute paratactic clauses (elaboration), absolute hypotactic clauses (extension and enhancement), absolute projected clauses (fact and act) and absolute embedded clauses (subject). Based on the Brown family corpora, BNC and COHA, this research finds that different function types of absolute clauses differ in terms of their stylistic and diachronic distributions, and both nominative and accusative cases are acceptable.

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