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Title Big events, small clauses : the grammar of elaboration / edited by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and Dag Haug
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 455 pages)
Series Language, context, and cognition, 1866-8313 ; vol. 12
Language, context, and cognition ; v. 12.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical issues -- Chapter 1. Co-eventive adjuncts: main issues and clarifications -- Chapter 2. Closed adjuncts: degrees of pertinence -- Chapter 3. Open adjuncts: participial syntax -- Chapter 4. Open adjuncts: degrees of event integration -- Chapter 5. Competing structures: the discourse perspective -- Part II: Language-specific case studies -- CHAPTER 6.1. Possessive absolutes in English and their Norwegian correspondences -- CHAPTER 6.2. On absolutes in French, German, and Norwegian -- Chapter 7. Open verb-headed adjuncts in New Testament Greek and the Latin of the Vulgate -- Chapter 8. The meaning of Russian converbs -- Chapter 9. Participant- and event-oriented adjectival adjuncts in translation German-Norwegian -- Chapter 10. German wobei-clauses in translation -- Summary and final discussion -- References -- Index -- Contributors
Summary Non-finite clause-like structures such as converb and participial constructions, depictive adjectivals, absolute and comitative small clauses are important means of enriching the description of the event or situation conjured up by the main verb; but they have not been studied in depth from that perspective. The present book takes up that challenge. It throws new light on the interface between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and presents new empirical findings based on parallel corpora involving English, German, Norwegian, French, Russian, Latin, and Ancient Greek
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adjuncts.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Voice.
Semantics.
Semantics
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adjuncts
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Voice
Semantics
Konverb
Adjunkt Linguistik
Partizipialkonstruktion
Syntaxis.
Semantiek.
Pragmatiek.
Form Electronic book
Author Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine.
Haug, Dag.
ISBN 9783110285864
311028586X
9781283857154
1283857154