"Absoluteness" of the Absolute Construction in Present-Day English: a Corpus-Based Analysis.
Journal Title: Вісник Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка - Year 2018, Vol 87, Issue 1
Abstract
The article focuses on the question of presence / absence of referential relations (coreference) between the unaugmented absolute construction and its matrix clause in Present-day English. Based on a representative sample from the corpus of the English language BYU-BNC, the traditional approach to the absolute construction as an "independent" structure that has no connection with the rest of the sentence is reconsidered. The analysis of referential relations between the unaugmented absolute construction and its matrix clause has established that cases of coreference (full and partial) significantly outweigh the cases of absence of coreference. These findings indicate that the construction is semantically / logically related to its matrix clause. Furthermore, the obtained data show that meronimic (part-whole) relations prevail in the analysed sample. More precisely, the relations of the types "component - integral object" and "member - collection" are the most numerous. The obtained results suggest that in Present-day English unaugmented absolute constructions compensate lack of syntactic connection with the matrix clause with closer semantic relations, explicitly expressed by complete or partial coreference. In our further research on the issue we intend to carry out a similar analysis for the English augmented absolute constructions in order to determine prevailing types of coreference between them and the matrix clause.
Authors and Affiliations
V. V. Zhukovska
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP551752
- DOI -
- Views 129
- Downloads 0
Family as the Environment of a Child's Formation
The first part of this article is about the family, which is as we all know, the first and fundamental environment of a child’s formation. We present the definitions of a family and the processes that form it. We had a c...
Verbalization of the Value Component Image of a Person of Culture in the Works by V. Sukhomlynsky for Children
The education of a person of culture is an urgent social problem: its decisions will help to respond to the key challenges of the present and successfully overcome them, will allow humanity to look confidently in the fut...
Scientific and Extrascientific Knowledge is the Alternative or Dialogue?
The paper focuses on the attempt to correlate such notions as scientific and extrascientific knowledge based on the peculiarities of modern post-classical world view. In order to get that done the author reveals the main...
Motivation as the Basis for the Professional Language Competence Formation for Future Intelligence Officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The paper highlights the main motivation aspects of military highly specialized language training of future intelligence officers of Ukrainian Armed Forces. The motivation resources for forming the professional foreign l...
Creativity as a Necessary Condition for the Formation of Language Communicative Personality of the Prospective Primary School Teacher.
The article deals with the meaning of the concepts ''creativity'' and ''creation'' in the terms of the formation of language communicative personality of the prospective primary school teacher. It was found out that crea...