Abstract
In Chap. 2, we reviewed the study of absolute clauses in traditional grammar in terms of syntactic functions, stylistic distribution, historical distribution and case choice, etc. There are still problems with these studies. For example, traditional grammar fails to reach an agreement on the case of absolute clauses and it does not account for the role of with in augmented absolute clauses. Since absolute clauses are subordinate constructions with no finite verb, why do they merely act as clausal adjuncts and circumstances?
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He, Q., Yang, B. (2015). Absolute Clauses Distributed in Three Corpora. In: Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective. The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46367-3_6
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