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

• Main Authors: He, Qingshun (Author), Yang, Bingjun (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series,
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Grammar.; Philology.; Language and Literature.; Theoretical Linguistics.

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...

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.