A Role and Reference Grammar Account of Adjuncts in the Airbus Corpus: A Quantitative-Based Study

This paper presents the results of a quantitative study adjuncts in Airbus corpus carried out within theoretical framework Role and Reference Grammar (RRG). We describe positional behaviour these peripheral constituents Layered Structure Clause postulate scales preferences, based on frequency distribution, controlled natural language (CNL). The obtained were compared with previous adjunct preferences positions Natural English to check for changes due nature texts written this CNL. also aim contribute development RRG analysis adverbials by offering detailed semantic typology description syntax grounded empirical quantitatively data that will serve as basis parsing computational processing CNLs.