A partir d'un corpus électronique de 100 millions de mots mis au point par les universités d'Oxford et de Lancaster, une étude des subordonnées introduites par since en anglais contemporain, conjonction polysémique pouvant introduire un complément circonstanciel de cause ou de temps. ©Electre 2025
A Corpus-Based Study of Since- Clauses in Contemporary English
This book is concerned with the characteristics of the two categories of since- clauses in contemporary English (namely, causal vs. temporal), based on an in-depth analysis of more than 500 attested examples sampled from the British National Corpus. Although these two types share the same introducing subordinator, they are often contrasted with each other regarding their position in the sentence, or in terms of the choice of tense, aspect and modality in the main clause and in the since- clause respectively. Nonetheless, the recourse to since may give way to semantic ambiguity, which makes it necessary not only to re-examine its etymology, but also to keep an open mind as far as grammatical classification is concerned. Although an utterer-centred approach is favoured, all the technical terms used in the present study are defined and contextualised, making it accessible to anyone interested in English grammar and/or (corpus) linguistics.
Paru le : 23/10/2014
Thématique : Linguistique
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Bénédicte Guillaume
Éditeur(s) :
Presses universitaires du Midi
Collection(s) : Interlangues
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-8107-0323-4
EAN13 : 9782810703234
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 207
Hauteur: 23.0 cm / Largeur 14.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.2 cm
Poids: 272 g
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