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Adverbial clauses and adverbial concord [PDF]

Glossa, 2019
This paper speculates that the merge site of an adverbial clause, i.e. its external syntax, is determined by its derivational history, i.e. its internal syntax.
Liliane Haegeman, Yoshido Endo
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Adverbial causal clauses as relative clauses

Isogloss
This paper investigates to what extent adverbial causal clauses and relative clauses can be reduced as one and the same phenomenon. Whereas causal clauses have always posed a challenge for a unified account of relativization and adverbial subordination ...
Emanuela Sanfelici, Sira Rodeghiero
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Pseudo-Complex Clauses in Persian and Their Constructing Strategies [PDF]

نشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی, 2021
Morphologically, syntactically and semantically, adverbs can be defined and classified in different ways, adverbs modify propositions and semantically convey various concepts.
Fateme Yegane, Farhad Sasani
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Comparison of Complement Clauses in Persian and Russian Languages with Focus on the Words that Need Complement [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2023
In Persian, the complement subordinate clause is known as one of the direct dependents of the verb, but in Russian, it can also be dependent on the verb, noun, short adjective, or predicative adverbs.
mahnush eskandari, Ali Saeidi
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How to not lose the track: tail-head linkage as a mechanism for maintaining cohesion of spatial information in Dâw narratives

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2021
References to landscape and places are central in traditional narratives by speakers of Dâw (Naduhup, Brazilian Amazon). This emphasis on spatial reference is primarily established through locative adverbial clauses that are often repeated throughout the
Karolin Obert
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Icelandic V3 orders with temporal adjunct

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020
Although Icelandic is a verb second language (V2), it sometimes allows for V3 orders. In this paper, I focus on a type of Icelandic V3 which consists of an adverbial adjunct occurring in front of wh-questions and present the results of a pilot study that
Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir
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On adverbial clauses in spoken Lithuanian

Lietuvių Kalba, 2020
The aim of the paper is to investigate adverbial clauses of time, cause, condition and concession in spontaneous private communication. The study explores semantic relations between the main and subordinate clauses, grammatical features and predominant ...
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė
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Formation Pecularities and Structural-Semantic Analysis of Adverbial Participle and Converb in the Rutul Language

Язык и текст, 2023
The verb in the Caucasian languages is a complex formation which determines a sentence’s actants form, i.e. its central part. The Rutul verb is also distinguished by the complexity of education, the development of forms, grammatical ...
S.M. Makhmudova
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Estonian Clause Patterns - from Finno-Ugric to Standard Average European [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2022
Estonian clauses can be divided into two basic patterns: unmarked basic clauses and marked basic clauses, depending on whether the clause-initial topic is the subject or not.
Helle Metslang, Mati Erelt
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Main clause external constituents and the derivation of subject-initial verb Second [PDF]

, 2018
This paper discusses V3-patterns with a sentence-initial adverbial clause in Standard Dutch (StD) and West-Flemish (WF), which appear to violate the V2 restriction which normally regulates word order in these languages.
Greco, Ciro, Haegeman, Liliane
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