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Medially-Placed Linking Adverbials in Written Academic English: Usage Patterns and Functions

Medially-Placed Linking Adverbials in Written Academic English: Usage Patterns and Functions

Harthan, Carolin
Lenker, Ursula

Hardcover

Series: Muse: Munich Studies in English, Book 49

GermanGeneral ReferenceGrammar & Style

ISBN10: 3631864566
ISBN13: 9783631864562
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jun 13 2022
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
In Present-Day English, the only flexible sentence constituent in unmarked
declarative sentences is the adverbial, which can often be placed in initial, medial, or end position. This book presents the first empirical and corpus-based study on the usage patterns and functions of medially-placed linking adverbials in conceptually-written academic English. By combining quantitative with detailed qualitative analyses of selected corpus examples, the present study explores whether the placement of linking adverbials in medial position can be regarded as a focusing strategy, similar to focusing adverbs and cleft sentences. Moreover, it investigates whether different medial positions are associated with distinct discourse functions, such as the marking of contrastive topics or different

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