Code
01N02512
Duration
01 January 2012 → 14 October 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Language studies
- Linguistics
- Literary studies
- Theory and methodology of linguistics
- Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
secondary predicates
adjuncts
English linguistics
syntax
functional linguistics
layering
lexicogrammar
structural-functional grammar
Project description
The aim of this research is to develop a description and explanation (1) of the syntax and semantics of secondary predication in english (2) in a structural-functional grammatical model based on layering, and (3) within the framework of a theory of predication. The research focuses on participant-oriented adjuncts and their relationship with participants and main predicates in the clausal syntagm.