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

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 circumstan...

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Main Authors: He, Qingshun (Author), Yang, Bingjun (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Series:M. A. K. Halliday Library functional linguistics series.
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