Big Events, Small Clauses : : The Grammar of Elaboration / / ed. by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Dag Haug.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Behrens, Bergljot,; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine,; Filiouchkina Krave, Maria,; Hasselgård, Hilde,; Haug, Dag T. T.,; Helland, Hans Petter,; Hobæk Haff, Marianne,; Pitz, Anneliese,; Ramm, Wiebke,; Solfjeld, Kare,; Solfjeld, Kåre,; Sæbø, Kjell-Johan,
• HerausgeberIn: Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine,; Haug, Dag,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Language, Context and Cognition , 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (457 p.)

This book investigates specific syntactic means of event elaborationacross seven Indo-European languages (English, German, Norwegian,French, Russian, Latin and Ancient Greek): bare and comitative smallclauses (“absolutes”), participle constructions and related clause-like butnon-finite adjuncts that...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I: Theoretical issues
• Chapter 1. Co-eventive adjuncts: main issues and clarifications
• Chapter 2. Closed adjuncts: degrees of pertinence
• Chapter 3. Open adjuncts: participial syntax
• Chapter 4. Open adjuncts: degrees of event integration
• Chapter 5. Competing structures: the discourse perspective
• Part II: Language-specific case studies
• CHAPTER 6.1. Possessive absolutes in English and their Norwegian correspondences
• CHAPTER 6.2. On absolutes in French, German, and Norwegian
• Chapter 7. Open verb-headed adjuncts in New Testament Greek and the Latin of the Vulgate
• Chapter 8. The meaning of Russian converbs
• Chapter 9. Participant- and event-oriented adjectival adjuncts in translation German-Norwegian
• Chapter 10. German wobei-clauses in translation
• Summary and final discussion
• References
• Index
• Contributors