Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English

Kortmann, Bernd

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“…The English supplementive ing-clause has received attention both in traditional grammars and monographs (Quirk et al 1985(Quirk et al : 1123(Quirk et al -1126Kortmann 1991;Biber et al 1999: 782-783, 820, 829-833, 840, 907-908). These studies often focus on its grammatical properties and relation to similar constructions such as the absolute (Stump 1985;Kortmann 1991), 3 but also its semantic flexibility.…”

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“…These studies often focus on its grammatical properties and relation to similar constructions such as the absolute (Stump 1985;Kortmann 1991), 3 but also its semantic flexibility. The following examples illustrate the semantic diversity of the supplementive ing-clause, where (3) induces a temporal, (4) a causal and (5) a circumstantial reading, often referred to as accompanying circumstance (Kortmann 1991).…”

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“…"and studied them through the field glasses" Kortmann's (1991) inference-driven approach. One notable finding is that Norwegian translators occasionally add explicit markers, "discourse particles" in Behrens' (1998: 259ff.…”

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“…7 We would like to thank Professor Jukka Tyrkkö, Linnaeus University, for assistance with statistical tests. Ing-clauses per 10,000 words Fiction (Kortmann 1991) 60.9 Fiction (Biber et al 1999) c. 40 News (Kortmann 1991) 26.5 ENGLISH ORIGINALS (LEGS) 26.1 TRANSLATIONS FROM GERMAN (LEGS) 24.7 Science (Kortmann 1991) 16.6 TRANSLATIONS FROM SWEDISH (LEGS) 12.8 Economics text (Blensenius 2006) 11 Spoken language (Kortmann 1991) 10.1 Academic (Biber et al 1999) c. 10 News (Biber et al 1999) c.10 Conversation (Biber et al 1999) "almost non-existent"…”

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“…According to Kortmann (1991), the interpretation process is mainly inference-driven, but verb semantics has also been considered an important factor (e.g., Stump 1985;Behrens 1998). Kortmann (1991) identifies as many as fourteen different semantic categories, ranging from different temporal interpretations to concessive, instrumental and result readings. In his view, the supplementive ing-clause is "an ideal problem-solving device for remaining obscure" (Kortmann 1991: 114) and different readings may coexist (ibid.…”

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English supplementive ing-clauses and their German and Swedish correspondences

Ström-Herold¹,

Levin²

2018

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This paper investigates English supplementive ing-clauses (e.g., Hitler exploded, demanding examples.) in German and Swedish contrast. The material consists of popular nonfiction originals and their translations from the Linnaeus University English-German-Swedish corpus (LEGS) (version 0.1). The results show that coordination is the most frequent correspondence of supplementive ing-clauses in German and Swedish translations and originals. Like the supplementive ing-clause, a coordination is a compressed and semantically indeterminate structure. The other major correspondences include subordination, main clause and prepositional phrase. German translators more often use main clauses than Swedish translators, which seems to be related to an increasing German tendency for parataxis rather than hypotaxis. A number of German and Swedish instances involve different kinds of explicitation, including conjunctions and German pronominal adverbs.

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How statistical correlations influence discourse-level processing: Clause type as a cue for discourse relations.

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Scholman

Demberg

2024

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Linguistic phenomena (e.g., words and syntactic structure) co-occur with a wide variety of meanings. These systematic correlations can help readers to interpret a text and create predictions about upcoming material. However, to what extent these correlations influence discourse processing is still unknown. We address this question by examining whether clause type serves as a cue for discourse relations. We found that the cooccurrence of gerund-free adjuncts and specific discourse relations found in natural language is also reflected in readers' offline expectations for discourse relations. However, we also found that clause structure did not facilitate the online processing of these discourse relations, nor that readers have a preference for these relations in a paraphrase selection task. The present research extends previous research on discourse relation processing, which mostly focused on lexical cues, by examining the role of non-semantic cues. We show that readers are aware of correlations between clause structure and discourse relations in natural language, but that, unlike what has been found for lexical cues, this information does not seem to influence online processing and discourse interpretation.

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A cross cultural analysis of conjuncts as indicators of the interaction and negotiation of meaning in research articles

Povolná

2016

Topics in Linguistics

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The role of English as a global lingua franca of academia has become indisputable in the on-going process of internationalization of all scholarship, even though the majority of writers and readers of academic texts are non-native speakers of English. Thus it is questionable whether there is any justification for imposing on international academic communication written in English the style conventions typical of the dominant Anglophone discourse community. Recommendations usually comprise qualities such as clarity, economy, linearity and precision in communication (cf. Bennett, 2015), which can be achieved, among other means, by certain overt guiding signals including conjuncts (Quirk et al., 1985). Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to reveal cross-cultural variation in the use of these important text-organizing means as it is believed that conjuncts can enhance the interaction and negotiation of meaning between the author and prospective readers of academic texts. The paper explores which semantic relations holding between parts of a text tend to be expressed overtly by conjuncts and which semantic classes, such as appositive, contrastive/concessive, listing and resultive conjuncts, contribute most to the interactive and dialogic nature of written academic discourse. The data are taken from research articles (RAs) selected from two journals, one representing academic discourse written by native speakers of English (Applied Linguistics) and the other representing academic texts written in English by Czech and Slovak scholars (Discourse and Interaction).

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Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English

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English supplementive ing-clauses and their German and Swedish correspondences

English supplementive ing-clauses and their German and Swedish correspondences

How statistical correlations influence discourse-level processing: Clause type as a cue for discourse relations.

A cross cultural analysis of conjuncts as indicators of the interaction and negotiation of meaning in research articles

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