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ABSOLUTE CLAUSES IN ENGLISH FROM THE SYSTEMIC F...

¿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 circumstances and appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three
hypotactic expansions in the relation system of clause complexes in Systemic Functional
Linguistics  i.e.  elaboration  extension and enhancement. This research  therefore  redefines
absolute clauses in the framework of SFL and proposes four syntactic types of absolute clauses:
absolute paratactic clauses (elaboration)  absolute hypotactic clauses (extension and
enhancement)  absolute projected clauses (fact and act) and absolute embedded clauses
(subject). Based on the Brown family corpora  BNC and COHA  this research finds that different
function types of absolute clauses differ in terms of their stylistic and diachronic
distributions  and both nominative and accusative cases are acceptable.

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