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By Bernd Kortmann

unfastened adjuncts and absolutes ordinarily functionality as adverbial clauses which aren't brazenly distinct for any specific adverbial relation. The ebook is a non-formal, corpus dependent examine in their present use in English. Its specific concentration is on a finished and in-depth research in their semantic indeterminacy and the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic components that support get to the bottom of it.

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