Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Part I A framework for analysing adverbials
- Part II Adverbial positions: theme, cohesion and information dynamics
- Part III Semantic types of adverbials: subtypes, frequencies and usage
- 9 Space and time adjuncts
- 10 Adjuncts of manner and contingency
- 11 Other adjunct types: participant, respect, focus, degree, situation, comparison and viewpoint
- Part IV Adjunct adverbials in English
- Appendix
- References
- Index
10 - Adjuncts of manner and contingency
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Part I A framework for analysing adverbials
- Part II Adverbial positions: theme, cohesion and information dynamics
- Part III Semantic types of adverbials: subtypes, frequencies and usage
- 9 Space and time adjuncts
- 10 Adjuncts of manner and contingency
- 11 Other adjunct types: participant, respect, focus, degree, situation, comparison and viewpoint
- Part IV Adjunct adverbials in English
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
While the juxtaposition of space and time adjuncts in the previous chapter could be justified on the basis of semantic affinities between the two types, manner and contingency adjuncts are discussed in the same chapter for purely practical reasons. Manner and contingency adjuncts are the third and fourth most common types in the core corpus, as well as in Biber et al. (1999: 783ff). Both types were subdivided into a range of subcategories (see sections 2.4.3 and 2.4.4). It is thus of interest to see how these types of adjuncts are used in context. In the case of manner adjuncts, it is also relevant to discuss the extent to which the subcategories really express manner, as the manner adjuncts in the present framework are defined and categorised somewhat differently from the systems found in the reference grammars consulted.
Manner and contingency adjuncts do not have the same potential as space and time adjuncts for metaphorical extension, but some types, notably those denoting quality, cause and condition, have clear parallels in the interpersonal domain, as disjuncts.
Manner adjuncts
More on subtypes of manner adjuncts
Manner adjuncts are a highly diverse category, with as many as eight subtypes (see table 2.2). The most frequent by far is manner:quality; compared to this all the others are relatively rare, the second most frequent one – accompaniment – being almost five times less common.
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- Adjunct Adverbials in English , pp. 218 - 239Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010