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Adverbial clauses and adverbial concord [PDF]
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2019 This paper speculates that the merge site of an adverbial clause, i.e. its external syntax, is determined by its derivational history, i.e. its internal syntax. Starting from the distinction between central adverbial clauses and peripheral adverbial clauses, it is first shown that the degree of integration of an adverbial clause correlates with its ...
Endo, Yoshio, Haegeman, Liliane
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French adverbial clauses: rescue by ellipsis and the truncation vs. intervention debate [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates the restrictions on movement to the left periphery found in non-root environments such as French central adverbial clauses and argues that an analysis of main clause phenomena based on intervention/Relativized Minimality is to be ...
Authier, Jean-Marc, Haegeman, Liliane
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Main clause external constituents and the derivation of subject-initial verb Second [PDF]
, 2018 This paper discusses V3-patterns with a sentence-initial adverbial clause in Standard Dutch (StD) and West-Flemish (WF), which appear to violate the V2 restriction which normally regulates word order in these languages.
Greco, Ciro, Haegeman, Liliane
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Adverbial clauses with -ig and the “until -puzzle” [PDF]
, 2013 This paper is devoted to untangling some of the cross-linguistic puzzles that are associated with temporal adverbial clauses in general, and until-clauses in particular.
Ürögdi, Barbara
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MaxElide and clause structure in Scottish Gaelic [PDF]
, 2014 No abstract ...
Thoms, Gary
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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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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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Negative inversion, negative concord and sentential negation in the history of English [PDF]
, 2012 It is claimed in van Kemenade (2000: 62) that clauses with initial negative constituents are a context in which subject–verb inversion occurs throughout the history of English.
Chomsky +16 more
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Mistakes that students of English Language make in using adverbial clauses of time [PDF]
, 2015 To know a language does not only mean to know its vocabulary, but how to link the words, the word order in a clause as well as the order of clauses in a sentence, their role and their relations to each other. The relationship of the clauses in a sentence
Agaj, Teuta
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Subordination in Children’s Writing [PDF]
, 2002 This paper reports an investigation into the use of subordinate clauses in the writing of a class of seven to nine year old children when attempting five different writing tasks.
Allison, P, Beard, Roger, Willcocks, J
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