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Calidoscópio, 2014 This article presents a study of adverbial clauses introduced by the connector quando (when) in printed news articles in Brazilian Portuguese. The aim is to investigate the role of these clauses in the emergency of rhetorical relations.
Gustavo Ximenes Cunha
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Anaphora and Discourse Structure [PDF]
, 2002 We argue in this paper that many common adverbial phrases generally taken to signal a discourse relation between syntactically connected units within discourse structure, instead work anaphorically to contribute relational meaning, with only indirect ...
Joshi, Aravind +3 more
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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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Another Division on Persian Comprehensive Preposition [PDF]
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2018 Having a look at preposition in Persian grammar sources, we find out that these five comprehensive prepositions "to, with, on, from, in" have multiple grammatical behavior.
ehsan esmaili
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Adverbial clauses: Internally rich, externally null
Glossa, 2019 This paper suggests a novel syntactic treatment of adverbial clauses. The point of departure is the observation – in German and Slavic languages – that there exists an asymmetry in the complexity of subordinating elements in complement and adverbial ...
Andreas Blümel, Hagen Pitsch
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Quantification and polarity: negative adverbial intensifiers ('never ever', 'not at all', etc.) in Hausa [PDF]
, 2009 Hausa has a typologically interesting but poorly understood set of quantifying time and degree adverbs—equivalent to English 'never ever', 'not at all', etc.—which behave as negative polarity items and enhance the pragmatic impact of a negative utterance
Jaggar, Philip J.
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A Bird's Eye View of English Grammar: Connecting the Dots in Two Dimensions
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Over the past few decades, discussions on grammar instruction have primarily focused on teaching methodologies, such as whether grammar should be taught explicitly or implicitly, and whether the focus should be on form or forms. This paper, however, shifts the focus to grammar itself, aiming to provide a “shape” for pedagogical grammar.
Akira Tajino, Yoshitaka Kato
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
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Slovene, 2020 The article discusses the subject matching between the adverbial participle construction and the main clause in Russian. Russian normative grammar requires the main clause and the adverbial participle construction within one utterance to express an ...
Fedor B. Albrekht
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The Sarikoli reflexive pronoun
Open Linguistics, 2015 This paper describes χɯ, the Sarikoli reflexive personal and possessive pronoun, in terms of its agreement, relative prominence, and domain. The reflexive χɯ does not overtly agree with its antecedent, always maintaining the same form.
Kim Deborah
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