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Free adjuncts and absolutes typically function as adverbial clauses which are not overtly specified for any particular adverbial relation. The book is a non-formal, corpus based study of their current use in English. Its particular focus is on a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of their semantic indeterminacy and the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors that help resolve it.Kortmann, Bernd is the author of 'Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English Problems of Control and Interpretation' with ISBN 9780415063913 and ISBN 0415063914.
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