Adjuncts
Adjuncts are one of the five major elements of clause structure. The other four are subject (s), verb (v), object (o) and complement (c). Adjuncts (a) are some times called adverbials. …

adjunct | American Dictionary

adjunct
noun[ C ]
us/ˈædʒ·ʌŋkt/
something added or connected to something larger or more important:
Canada’s economy is not an adjunct to the US’s but rather is expanding on its own.
An adjunct is also a temporary teacher at a college or university:
adjunct professors/faculty

adjunct | Business English

adjunct
noun[ C ]
 formaluk /ˈædʒʌŋkt/us
something that is added or connected to a larger or more important thing:
an adjunct to sthGreen, socially conscious concepts are not an adjunct to its main business, but a philosophy that works its way into everything it does.

Examples of adjunct

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On the other hand, low-level preprocessing leads to non-dependents appearing among the candidate complements and adjuncts, and constituting a major source of noise.
The final (optional) element of the sequence gives the values of the syntactic functions, adjuncts and specifiers (in any order, distinguished by their role names).
Most of these approaches distinguish complements from adjuncts as a first step in order to avoid the sparse data problem.
Our method for distinguishing complements from adjuncts relies on heuristics that are based on local structural information.
Any subsequent strategies used were considered adjuncts and will be discussed momentarily.
Devices and adjuncts to selfmanagement for asthma sufferers.
He simply claims that the examples provided contain predicative adjuncts.
In other words, there are very few senior (professorial) positions but many lecturers, adjuncts, and part-timers.
The emphasis lies on functional time-related and quantificational adjuncts, and their interaction with various auxiliaries and negation.
Adverbial adjuncts have a wide range of positions, constrained by their selectional restrictions and the system of compositional rules.
Generally, predicational adjuncts with clausal readings are preverbal, while functional and participant adjuncts can be either preverbal or postverbal.
According to this account, discourse-level information may influence early parsing decisions, but only for adjuncts and modifiers that occur within a given thematic domain.
Analyzing the alternation in (3) as an argument alternation would force us to treat the oblique phrases as arguments rather than as adjuncts.
They show that only selected constituents are interpreted idiomatically; for unselected elements (such as adjuncts), only strictly compositional interpretations are available.
While adjuncts are not used in characterizing the classes, it is possible they may contain highly distinguishing information correlated with semantic class.
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adjunct faculty
The school has 18 faculty members, five adjunctfaculty and 12 associated faculty from other university departments.
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