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- Title
ING CLAUSES AND THEIR FUNCTIONS ACROSS LEGAL ENGLISH CORPORA: A COMPARATIVE GENRE-BASED STUDY.
- Authors
NADOVA, ZUZANA
- Abstract
The submitted paper aims to detect and examine any regularities in the employment of -ing clauses classified into two functional varieties (present participial and gerundial) across two corpora of British legal English: Acts of Parliament and Appellate Judgments. The main purpose of the presented genre-based descriptive study is to analyse -ing clauses and their minor structural and semantic variants taking into account their syntactic functions in the respective genre of legal English as well as the communicative purpose of their immediate co-text. The analysis shows that -ing clauses are used in highly genre specific ways, both formally and functionally speaking.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language; LANGUAGE &; languages; CONVERSATION method (Language teaching); TEACHING methods; FRAMES (Linguistics)
- Publication
RaeL: Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada, 2015, Issue 14, p13
- ISSN
1885-9089
- Publication type
Article