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Title:
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Where and When: Positional and Functional Conventions for Sequences of Time and Space Adverbials in Present-day English
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Author:
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Hilde Hasselgård
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Degree Awarded:
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University of Oslo
, Department of British and American Studies
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Degree Date:
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1994
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Text/Corpus Linguistics
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Subject Language(s):
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English
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Director(s):
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Stig Johansson
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Abstract:
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The point of departure of the study is that time and space adverbials in modern English can take various positions in a sentence. The investigation is corpus-based, with the aim of discovering the factors that govern the placement of such adverbials, from the perspectives of syntax, information structure, textual cohesion and genre.
A sequence of adverbials refers to the co-occurrence of two or more adverbials in the same clause. The material comprises sentences in which the adverbials follow one another directly, as well as those in which two or more adverbial positions have been used. One of the objectives of the analysis is to uncover the unmarked patterning of time and space adverbials in sequence, and to look for explanations from deviations from such a pattern. The sentences are always studied in their wider context.
Several genres of English have been studied, both spoken and written, in order to find out whether word order patterns vary across genres. In the last part of the study, the genres are compared with regard to the communicative functions of time and space adverbials, i.e. the extent to which they contribute to the cohesive structure or to the build-up of information.
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