The sentence structure complexity and clause positioning (Staveley, 2013) represent the striking features of the writing style of the 19-th century British fiction writers. The present syntactic study brings detailed quantitative and qualitative syntactic analyses of peripheral sentence elements, sentence (stance) adverbials, occurring in the Victorian novel Jane Eyre (1847), and offers their classification into style and content disjuncts. As the latter ones are generally employed by fiction in the novels’ dialogues and main characters’ reflections (Biber, 1999), the research questions focus predominantly on their function and frequency of use. Content disjuncts help to express the possibility or the doubt of the utterance and explain the outcome of the actions and events happening in the story. The research outcomes have confirmed that content disjuncts considerably contribute to understanding the writing style of Charlotte Brontë. This phenomenon can be further studied and developed in the syntactic analyses of other remarkable 19th century novels and novelists. The research results will find their application not only in the theory and practice of syntax but also in the process of teaching/learning English as a foreign language.

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维多利亚小说《简爱》中的句子状语句法分析

句子结构的复杂性和从句定位（Staveley，2013）代表了 19 世纪英国小说作家写作风格的显着特征。目前的句法研究对维多利亚时代小说《简爱》（1847）中出现的外围句子元素、句子（立场）状语进行了详细的定量和定性句法分析，并将它们分类为风格和内容分离。由于后者通常用于小说的对话和主要人物的反思中（Biber，1999），因此研究问题主要集中在它们的功能和使用频率上。内容分离有助于表达话语的可能性或怀疑，并解释故事中发生的动作和事件的结果。研究结果证实，内容分离对理解夏洛蒂勃朗特的写作风格有很大帮助。这种现象可以在其他杰出的 19 世纪小说和小说家的句法分析中得到进一步研究和发展。研究成果不仅会在句法理论和实践中得到应用，还会在英语作为外语的教学/学习过程中得到应用。