Sometime back there was a discussion on adjuncts on this list. Here's an
interesting article that I thought might be of interest.

http://chronicle.com/article/Off-the-Adjunct-Treadmill/141557/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en

Cheers

Nancy Poole

Information: * a linguistic convenience that saves you the trouble of
thinking about what you are talking about.

R.A. Fairthorne, 1965.
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