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Big events, small clauses : the grammar of elaboration /
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 per...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
2012.
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| Colección: | Language, context, and cognition ;
v. 12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.