EXPANDING THE MESSAGE
CHAPTER 7
Clause combinations
Module 31: Clause combining 31.1 31.2
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31.2.1 Clausal and non-clausal material
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Degrees of dependency between clauses
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Module 32: Types of relationship between clauses 32.1 32.2 32.3 32.4
Syntactic relationships and semantic relationships Syntactic relationships of equivalence: coordination and apposition Syntactic relationships of non-equivalence: dependency and subordination The semantics of clause combining: types of expansion
Module 33: Elaborating the message 33.1
33.2 33.3
34.2 34.3 34.4
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Apposition and elaboration in finite clauses
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33.1.1 Clarifying connectives: restating, exemplifying and upgrading
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Sentence relative clauses Non-finite supplementive clauses: specifying and commenting
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Module 34: Extending the message 34.1
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The complex sentence The sentence as an orthographic and rhetorical unit
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The semantics of coordination
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34.1.1 34.1.2 34.1.3 34.1.4
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Addition Variation Alternation Explanation
Contrastive dependency: while, whereas, but for the fact that Besides, instead of, without + non-finites Implicit meanings of -ing supplementives
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