On the syntax of adjuncts in abstracts of research articles : a cross-disciplinary study

الملخص EN

The present paper seeks to study adjuncts from a syntactic perspective.

Taking into account the fact that they are optional elements in the structure of the clause and that they can have different realisation forms, this study investigates this syntactic choice trying to link it to the context of use, which is in this case the genre of scientific writing, the domain of abstracts and the different research methodologies.

In fact, the chosen disciplines, namely medical and social, have different research methodologies since they are instances of hard and soft sciences, respectively.

Both qualitative and quantitative methods are used in the analysis of the adjuncts extracted from a corpus made up of research articles ’ abstracts in the medical and social sciences.

The aim is to prove that the syntactic distribution of adjuncts is linked to the context of use.