Commas and connective adverbs

Title: Commas and connective adverbs
Creator: Peterson, Peter G.
Relation: Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and Beyond p. 277-292
Relation: Varieties of English Around the World: General Series 39
Relation: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=VEAW%20G39&artid=13127836
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2009
Description: This chapter reports the findings of a corpus-based study of the use of three connective adverbs, however, therefore and thus, to introduce a second main clause within a single orthographic sentence (“run-on sentences”). It is established that these three items still display in this usage all the criterial syntactic properties of connective adverbs. This usage is more frequent in current written English from Australian and New Zealand English than in British and American English, and much more frequent in unedited writing. The phenomenon is essentially a change in the use of punctuation devices, demonstrating a tendency to treat as a single (orthographic) sentence two clauses that form a closely linked logical sequence.
Subject: commas; connective adverbs; run-on sentences; punctuation devices
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918111
Identifier: uon:8515
Identifier: ISBN:9789027248992
Language: eng

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