Title: Analysis of Semantc Functions of the Arributive Clauses with Adverbiality in English
Abstract:As is known to all that in English, the attributive clause is a kind of modifying clauses which are used as postmodifiers of the nouns (or noun phrases) to modify the antecedents. However, some attrib...As is known to all that in English, the attributive clause is a kind of modifying clauses which are used as postmodifiers of the nouns (or noun phrases) to modify the antecedents. However, some attributive clauses in English have the adverbial functions in semantics, explaining the relations of time, reason, result, condition (or supposition), purpose or concession with the main clauses. Therefore, in order to understand and translate this kind of clauses, you should try to find out the logical relations from the context to translate the sentences into the respective Chinese. And this paper is a basic discussion on the attributive clauses used as adverbial functions in semantics from the deep structures.Read More
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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