THE USE OF NON-FINITE CLAUSES IN WRITTEN ACADEMIC DISCOURSE
THE USE OF NON-FINITE CLAUSES IN WRITTEN ACADEMIC DISCOURSE

Author(s): Zuzana Kozáčiková
Subject(s): Language studies, Syntax, Semantics, Higher Education , Stylistics
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: dependent clause; written discourse; academic discourse; research abstracts; non-finite clause; to-infinitive clause;
Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the use and syntactic properties of non-finite clauses in different types of written academic discourse. Non-finite clauses are defined narrowly as the forms not inflected by categories that are marked inflectionally in language, as tense, aspect, mood, number, gender and person. Considering their syntactic and semantic distribution, non-finite clauses serve as markers of formal language variety. The present study tries to look at the formal realization and communicative use of non-finite forms in language.

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