TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carolin Harthan
PY  - 2022
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-088X
SN  - 9783631877128
TI  - Medially-Placed Linking Adverbials in Written Academic English
T2  - Usage Patterns and Functions
DO  - 10.3726/b19655
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1249553
N2  - In Present-Day English, the only flexible sentence constituent in unmarked declarative sentences is the adverbial, which can often be placed in initial, medial, or end position. This book presents the first empirical and corpus-based study on the usage patterns and functions of medially-placed linking adverbials in conceptually-written academic English. By combining quantitative with detailed qualitative analyses of selected corpus examples, the present study explores whether the placement of linking adverbials in medial position can be regarded as a focusing strategy, similar to focusing adverbs and cleft sentences. Moreover, it investigates whether different medial positions are associated with distinct discourse functions, such as the marking of contrastive topics or different focus meanings.
LA  - English
ER  -