Abstract:
This bachelor thesis deals with adverbials, particularly adjuncts and subjuncts, occurring in
literary texts and in book reviews. The first chapter introduces adverbials in general along with
their functions, positions and syntactic forms. Then the two following chapters focus
respectively on adjuncts and subjuncts. In both chapters, each type of adverbial is explained in
detail along with its semantic categories, which are also thoroughly described. The theoretical
part is concluded with a brief introduction into the literary style and the style of book reviews.
The aim of the practical part is to analyse corpus findings and interpret them with respect to
their functions, positions, realizations and the type of register.
