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The double modal construction in English world wide

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 485-503, September 2026.
Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Non-finite adverbial subordination in Chintang [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In Chintang (Sino-Tibetan, Kiranti) both finite and non-finite adverbial clauses are found. In this paper we discuss only nonfinite subordinate clauses in terms of their control behaviour, S/A coreferentiality, scope and other morpho-syntactic ...
Rai, Manoj   +10 more
core   +2 more sources

Conjunctive and prepositional comparatives in Slovenian

open access: yesLinguistica, 2010
The paper deals with the distribution of conjunctive and prepositional comparative structures in Slovenian. They are introduced by the complementiser kot and the preposition od, respectively. Comparative structures are categorised along three dimensions:
Sašo Živanović
doaj   +1 more source

The Adverbial Clause in Dalael Al-Ejaz.

open access: yes, 2016
يتناول البحث كلام الجرجاني على الجملة الحالية في كتابه "دلائل الإعجاز"؛ فيبدأ بعرض ما ذكره من أحكامها التي استقاها من مخزونه النحوي، ومفاده أنه إذا كانت الحال جملة اسميّة غلب عليها أن تجيء مقرونة بالواو، شريطة ألا يكون مبتدؤها ضميراً منفصلاً، وألا يكون ...
أنيس, محمود
core  

Adverbial clauses of time in spoken Lithuanian

open access: yesLietuvių Kalba
The paper examines adverbial clauses of time in spoken Lithuanian. The data have been collected from The Corpus of Contemporary Lithuanian Language, namely its sub-corpus of spoken language. The aim of the study is to describe the structure of adverbial
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė   +1 more
doaj  

The influence of tense in adverbial quantification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
We argue that there is a crucial difference between determiner and adverbial quantification. Following Herburger [2000] and von Fintel [1994], we assume that determiner quantifiers quantify over individuals and adverbial quantifiers over eventualities ...
Endriss, Cornelia, Hinterwimmer, Stefan
core  

Precautioning purpose constructions in typological perspective: a functional trade-off between clause-linking devices and tense–aspect–mood (TAM) marking

open access: yesJournal of World Languages
The present study explores precautioning purpose constructions in a sample of 71 languages. Languages may use non-specialized clause-linking devices to express precautioning purpose relations, e.g.
Olguín Martínez Jesús
doaj   +1 more source

Reduced Adverbial Clause In English

open access: yesEnglish Education and Literature Journal (E-Jou), 2022
Human cannot communicate with one another without language. Good language will affect the effectiveness of the information delivery. Using a good adverb clause is one of effective sentence example. However, the continuous use of adverb clauses will also create redundancies in the delivery of information.
openaire   +2 more sources

Adverbial clause in the Turkish dialects of Northeast Group

open access: yes, 2012
Türkçede çeşitli kelime grupları her tür metinde farklı sıklıklarda kullanılmaktadır. Bu gruplardan biri de zarf grubudur Eldeki makalede öncelikle zarf grubunun yapısı ve hangi terimlerle karşılandığı Türkiye Türkçesi üzerine yapılmış çalışmalar ...
Baydar, Arzu Sema Ertane
core  

Illocutionary Force of Adverbial Clauses: Evidence from German

open access: yesНаучный диалог
This study posits that adverbial clauses in the German can be categorized based on their degree of illocutionary force into three groups: (1) incompatible with modal indicators; (2) allowing the use of modal words denoting epistemic modality and ...
A. V. Averina
doaj   +1 more source

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