What is it about?
This paper builds on Jespersen's (1924) treatment of adverbials with a greater scope than merely the verb. It develops distinctions between different kinds of adverbials according to different scopes of reference within the clause, and covers (under the heading 'clause comment adjuncts') phenomena later independantly called 'disjuncts' by Greenbaum (1969), including what Halliday (1984) refers to as 'modal adjuncts'.
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Why is it important?
It is the first approach to this area in terms of functional linguistics.
Perspectives
The approach developed here underlies much of what I have subsequently published; and although it now reads as being rather dated, it is still a good way in to what I am now putting forward (forthcoming) as 'functional semantics'. This approach contrasts with a truth functional approach to linguistic meaning, and also differs in some major respects from work in Systemic Functional Linguistics and in other functional models, particularly in its treatment of the relationship between semantics and pragmatics.
Dr Eirian C Davies
Royal Holloway University of London
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This page is a summary of: SOME NOTES ON ENGLISH CLAUSE TYPES, Transactions of the Philological Society, November 1967, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-968x.1967.tb00337.x.
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