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Clause Chaining and Discourse Continuity in Turkish Children's Narratives
The present study examines the development of complex sentences with non-finite clause combining with particular focus on clause chaining, in narratives of 40 Turkish-speaking 4- to 11-year-olds and six adults elicited by a wordless picture book. Results
Hale Ögel-Balaban, Ayhan Aksu-Koç
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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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Temporal Adverbial Clauses in the Languages of the World: Clause-Linking Strategies [PDF]
This dissertation advances our understanding of the cross-linguistic variation in the expression of temporal adverbial relations, the semantic polyfunctionality of temporal clause-linking devices, and the areality of temporal clauses in a variety sample ...
Olguin Martinez, Jesus Francisco +1 more
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Nominal and adverbial clauses in Maltese [PDF]
The article considers two types of subordinate sentences: nominal (complement) clauses and adverbial clauses. It touches upon the difference between a nominal clause with an explicit verb and a clause lacking an explicit verb (a predicate/copular ...
Borg, Albert
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Temporal Adverbial Clause Markings In Balinese
Temporal adverbial functions can be realized by a subordinate clause. This subordinate clause is called temporal adverbial clause. The temporal adverbial clause is marked by a particular word(s) according to its semantic function.
Shiohara Asako +3 more
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Another Division on Persian Comprehensive Preposition [PDF]
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
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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Competing motivations for the ordering of main and adverbial clauses [PDF]
This article examines the ordering distribution of main and adverbial clauses. Using corpus data from spoken and written English, it is shown that the positioning of finite adverbial clauses vis-à-vis the main clause varies with their meaning or function:
Diessel, Holger
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English rationale since and a reassessment of the typology of adverbial clauses
This chapter examines the syntactic and semantic properties of English causal adverbial clauses, starting from the fact that the conjunctions since and as can both introduce either a temporal clause or a rationale clause.
Fleczoreck, Constanzeeditor +3 more
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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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