With-absolutes - Niederlandistik

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• Dutch: With-absolutes 1. Met dat pak op den rug wordt men voortgeduwd naar juist zulk een kerkhof. (DBNL 19 th century) (With that load on the back, one is pushed onwards to exactly such a cemetery.) • English: 2. With office appointments looming, discussions move briskly to their conclusion. (TIME: 1982) • Absolutes without with (are said to be older): 3. The coach being crowded, Fred had to stand. (Kortmann 1991: 1) 4. Ful benyngly ... he suffred hir to sey hir entent & ʒaf a fayr answer, hir supposyng it xuld ben þe bettyr. (Blake 1992: 364; quoted from Meech & Allen 1940: 11-12) (period: Early Middle English) 2
Structure of the presentation • Defining with-absolutes • Earlier research • Research questions • Methodology • Results • Discussion of results • Conclusion 3
Page 1: With-absolutes Historical Developme
Page 5 and 6: Defining with-absolutes (2) Example
Page 7 and 8: Defining with-absolutes (4) • Oth
Page 9 and 10: Earlier research (2) • Van der Lu
Page 11 and 12: Research Questions (2) • How did
Page 13 and 14: • English corpora: Methodology (2
Page 15 and 16: Results (1) • Absolute frequencie
Page 17 and 18: Results (3) Structural variety of p
Page 19 and 20: • Verb phrases: - Present partici
Page 21 and 22: • Adverbial phrases: Results (7)
Page 23 and 24: Results (9) • Frequencies of the
Page 25 and 26: 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Results (11)
Page 27 and 28: Development of structural diversity
Page 37 and 38: Absolutes with present participles
Page 39 and 40: In any case, analogy with non-augme
Page 41 and 42: Conclusion • Development of with-
Page 43 and 44: References • “absolute construc
Page 45 and 46: Corpora used • CLMETEV: “The Co
Page 47 and 48: Interpretation • Noun phrases ≈

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