A Study of Subjective Construal of Events in English, Japanese and other Languages

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The project has explicated that (1) the motivation for the use of dangling participial construction is that it describes the sequence of two situations from a conceptualizer's perspective: "When [the conceptualizer] doing the event in a participle, [the conceptualizer realizes] the situation in the main clause." (2) some dangling participles further develop metalinguistic, interpersonal or intersubjective function: _considering_ as a hedge, _moving on_ and _speaking of which_ as a topic changing function, and _supposing_ as casting question to the hearer. (3)the comparison between English, French and Japanese suggests that it the development of metalinguistic, interpersonal use of dangling participles tend to be observed more often when the dangling participles in the language has a marked status.