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TESOL Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 1650-1677, September 2026.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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Adverbial Clause Usage and Gender in English, Spanish, and French
, 2016 This study examines adverbial clause usage by women and men in three contexts: (1) single-gender and mixed-gender meetings of a US social club, (2) single-gender and mixed gender dyads speaking Ecuadorean Spanish, and (3) French speakers in informal ...
McGarry, Theresa, Mwinyelle, J.
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Competing motivations for the ordering of main and adverbial clauses [PDF]
, 2005 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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MANNER ADVERBIAL VERBS IN BALINESE [PDF]
, 2017 Recent research on Austronesian languages showed that adverbial verb is a particular feature in Formosan languages, which belongs to Western Austronesian Languages (Chang, 2010).
Purnawati, Ketut Widya, Artawa , Ketut
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The sequencing of adverbial clauses of time in academic English: Random forest modelling
Journal of Language Modelling, 2016 Adverbial clauses of time are positioned either before or after their associated main clauses. This study aims to assess the importance of discourse-pragmatics and processing-related constraints on the positioning of adverbial clauses of time in research
Abbas Ali Rezaee, Seyyed Ehsan Golparvar
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German concessives as TPs, JPs and ActPs
Glossa, 2020 The concessive relation is said to not be expressible by a central adverbial clause (CAC) but by a peripheral adverbial clause (PAC) or a non-integrated dependent clause (NonIC). This is true in the standard case.
Werner Frey
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 1027-1061, September 2026.Abstract Parallel tracking of distant relations between speech elements, so‐called nonadjacent dependencies (NADs), is crucial in language development but computationally demanding and acquired only in late preschool years. As processing of single NADs is facilitated when dependent elements are perceptually similar, we investigated how phonetic ...
Dimitra‐Maria Kandia +3 more
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On the Syntax of Instrumental Clauses: The Case of Indem-Clauses in German
LanguagesIn this article, I examine the external and internal syntax of instrumental indem-clauses in German. As a subordidating conjunction, indem takes a finite TP as its complement and triggers verb final position.
Łukasz Jędrzejowski
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Ratio, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 135-142, September 2026.ABSTRACT Most naïve realists do not distinguish between perception and consciousness; to say that I perceive the table is akin to saying that I am conscious of the table. Doing so leads many to maintain that if the character of experience is constituted by anything other than the table, I do not perceive it, and so naïve realism fails.
R. P. Koutedakis
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 574-594, September 2026.Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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