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Adverbial clauses and adverbial concord

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 Clauses

, 2023
After questioning the traditional category “adverbial clause,” which, unlike “complement clause” and “relative clause,” is not syntactically defined, the inventory of the formal markers of this category is presented, which encompasses connectives; their ...
Weiss, Daniel
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Topic extraction from adverbial clauses

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2016
This paper offers new data to support findings about Topic extraction from adverbial clauses. Since such clauses are strong islands, they should not allow extraction of any kind, but we show here that if the appropriate conditions are met, Topics of the ...
Carlos Rubio Alcalá
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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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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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Main clause phenomena and the derivation of adverbial clauses*

, 2009
English adverbial clauses are incompatible with argument fronting (1a) (Haegeman 2006) and with markers of epistemic modality (1b) (Nilsen 2004), while initial adjuncts are allowed (1c).(1) a   *When this book I find, I will buy it.
Haegeman, Liliane
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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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