Adverbial Clauses in Fiction

Abstract

This bachelor paper focuses on the use of adverbial clauses in fiction. On the basis of knowledge gained from the relevant literature, the quantitative analysis will be performed. For this purpose 200 adverbial clauses were collected in the chosen novels. The aim of the analysis is to determine the propensity of using the adverbial clauses in particular functional style, with regard both to syntactic forms and semantic types.