The Role of Verbless Clauses as a Stylistic Marker in Selected Works by Woolf, Joyce, Mansfield and Synge, Daviot, and Priestly

Abstract

Verbless clauses offer one concise formal means of writing which is especially suitable for the purpose of writing where brevity and economy are sought. The important question is how far such verbless constructions can function as a stylistic marker serving to differentiate one author's style from another i.e. Woolf's,, Joyce's, Mansfield's, and Synge's, Daviot's and Priestley's style. This is the question which this study tries to give an adequate answer in terms of statistical analysis and methods.