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  title info:
    title: Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective
    sub title: A Corpus-Based Study
  name:
    name part: He, Qingshun.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Yang, Bingjun.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 178 p. 58 illus., 36 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Absolute Clauses in the Literature -- Approaching Absolute Clauses from the SFL Perspective -- Research Design -- Relationships Realized by Absolute Clauses -- Absolute Clauses Distributed in Three Corpora -- Discussions -- Conclusion.
  note: by Qingshun He, Bingjun Yang.
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Grammar
  subject:
    topic: Philology
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Grammar
  subject:
    topic: Language and Literature
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical Linguistics
  classification: P151-152
  classification: 415
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
  identifier: 9783662463673
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46367-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 150226
    record change date: 20151204181300.0
    record identifier: 978-3-662-46367-3