ing Clauses and their functions across legal English corpora: a comparative genre-based study

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 ge...

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Published in:Revista electrónica de lingüística aplicada 2015-01, Vol.14 (1), p.13-34
Main Author: Nadova, Zuzana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
British English
Clauses
comunicación lingüistica
Genre
gerund
gerundio
inglés jurídico
legal English
Legal language
linguistic communication
participio presente
present participle
Semantic analysis
Syntactic analysis
Syntactic structures
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1885-9089
1885-9089