The Absolute Phrase in Contemporary English

• Authors: JAMES VANDEN BOSCH
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Until recently it has been difficult to obtain good information about the relative freąuency of the absolute phrase in spoken and written English. With a POS-tagged corpus like the ICE-GB, however, it is possible to use extraction formulas to find absolute phrases in the ICE-GB, a million-word corpus of contemporary English. In this study, I describe the re- sults of that corpus work, especially in terms of relative distribution by genre.

Keywords

EN

absolute phrase; absolute clause; nominative absolute; fixed absolutes; stereotyped absolutes; extraction formulas; tagged corpus; sentence fragments; syntax; relative frequency in spoken and written English; ICE-GB; POS-tagged corpus

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Opolski
• Journal: Stylistyka
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 18
• Pages: 323-335

Dates

published

2021-02-03

Contributors

author

JAMES VANDEN BOSCH