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, 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 possible correlatives in the main clause; and the verbal categories finiteness, mood, aspect, and ...
Weiss, Daniel
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The Syntax of Peripheral Adverbial Clauses [PDF]
Journal of Linguistics, 2022 This paper explores the relation between the interpretations of while in English and mentre in Italian introducing adverbial clauses. Central while/mentre clauses express a temporal/aspectual modification of the proposition in the host clause. Peripheral
Liliane Haegeman, Linda Badan
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Adverbial clauses and their variation
2023Abstract In this introduction chapter, we depict the variation of adverbial clauses focusing on causal clauses in German. We briefly overview the most important findings both from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, and embed them into a more general discussion on adverbial clause-linkage.
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Linguistics Vanguard, 2019
AbstractThis paper discusses word order effects in German adverbial clauses: often, the matrix clause can exhibit either V2 or V3 word order. I argue that adverbial clauses with V3 word order have an obligatory ‘biscuit’ interpretation and receive a speech act modifying interpretation, as has previously only been argued for ‘biscuit conditionals’.
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AbstractThis paper discusses word order effects in German adverbial clauses: often, the matrix clause can exhibit either V2 or V3 word order. I argue that adverbial clauses with V3 word order have an obligatory ‘biscuit’ interpretation and receive a speech act modifying interpretation, as has previously only been argued for ‘biscuit conditionals’.
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The subjunctive in adverbial clauses
2020This chapter explores the frequency development of the subjunctive and its competitors, namely indicatives and modal constructions, in the adverbial clauses of a corpus covering the periods Old English (OE), Middle English (ME), and Early Modern English (EModE). It also describes the influence of the parameters text category, adverbial clause type, and
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Nepalese Linguistics
This paper outlines the distribution of adverbial clauses in Dumi, a minority indigenous language among 26 Kirati Rai languages in Nepal. It has used secondary data based on Rai (2017). The primary data include the narrative with Dumi speakers from the Makpa area of the Dumi homeland and the writer's intuition as a mother tongue speaker.
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This paper outlines the distribution of adverbial clauses in Dumi, a minority indigenous language among 26 Kirati Rai languages in Nepal. It has used secondary data based on Rai (2017). The primary data include the narrative with Dumi speakers from the Makpa area of the Dumi homeland and the writer's intuition as a mother tongue speaker.
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Main clause phenomena and the derivation of adverbial clauses*
Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 2009Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, Vol 18 (2009): Selected Papers from the 18th International Symposium on Theoretical and Aplied Linguistics, Thessaloniki 4-6 May ...
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Chapter 5. English Rationale Since and a Reassessment of the Typology of Adverbial Clauses
Studies in Language Companion Series, 2023Liliane Haegeman
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