Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical issues -- Chapter 1. Co-eventive adjuncts: main issues and clarifications -- Chapter 2. Closed adjuncts: degrees of pertinence -- Chapter 3. Open adjuncts: participial syntax -- Chapter 4. Open adjuncts: degrees of event integration -- Chapter 5. Competing structures: the discourse perspective -- Part II: Language-specific case studies -- CHAPTER 6.1. Possessive absolutes in English and their Norwegian correspondences -- CHAPTER 6.2. On absolutes in French, German, and Norwegian -- Chapter 7. Open verb-headed adjuncts in New Testament Greek and the Latin of the Vulgate -- Chapter 8. The meaning of Russian converbs -- Chapter 9. Participant- and event-oriented adjectival adjuncts in translation German-Norwegian -- Chapter 10. German wobei-clauses in translation -- Summary and final discussion -- References -- Index -- Contributors