Adverbial clauses and adverbial concord [PDF]
Glossa, 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.
Liliane Haegeman, Yoshido Endo
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Adverbial causal clauses as relative clauses [PDF]
IsoglossThis paper investigates to what extent adverbial causal clauses and relative clauses can be reduced as one and the same phenomenon. Whereas causal clauses have always posed a challenge for a unified account of relativization and adverbial subordination ...
Emanuela Sanfelici, Sira Rodeghiero
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On adverbial clauses in spoken Lithuanian
Lietuvių Kalba, 2020 The aim of the paper is to investigate adverbial clauses of time, cause, condition and concession in spontaneous private communication. The study explores semantic relations between the main and subordinate clauses, grammatical features and predominant ...
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė
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Converbs and Adverbial Clauses: A Case Study in Cantonese
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2022 This paper investigates an understudied topic in adverbial clauses, converbs, which are verb forms that mark adverbial subordination. Focusing on converbal clauses in Cantonese, I show that they do not share a uniform syntax and should be divided into ...
Yip Ka-Fai
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Pseudo-Complex Clauses in Persian and Their Constructing Strategies [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 Morphologically, syntactically and semantically, adverbs can be defined and classified in different ways, adverbs modify propositions and semantically convey various concepts.
Fateme Yegane, Farhad Sasani
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Adverbial clauses in Veracruz Huasteca Nahuatl from a functional-typological approach
Liames, 2020 This paper analyses adverbial clauses in Veracruz Huasteca Nahuatl (vhn), a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Mexico. We argue that the formal properties of adverbial clauses in vhn are motivated by general functional principles, particularly, their ...
Jesus Francisco Olguín-Martínez +1 more
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Satzstruktur und adverbiale Subordination. Eine Studie zum Deutschen und zum Italienischen
Linguistik Online, 2014 This paper investigates the syntactic behaviour of adverbial clauses in contemporary German and Italian. It focuses on three main questions: (i) How many degrees of syntactic integration of adverbial clauses are there to be distinguished by an adequate
Hardarik Blühdorn, Miriam Ravetto
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Syntactic Resemblance in the Derivation of Persian Relative and Adverbial Clauses [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسیThe syntactic parallelism between relative clauses and adverbial clauses in English has led researchers to hypothesize that both types of clauses may share a common derivation process.
Mona Valipour
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Comparison of Complement Clauses in Persian and Russian Languages with Focus on the Words that Need Complement [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2023 In Persian, the complement subordinate clause is known as one of the direct dependents of the verb, but in Russian, it can also be dependent on the verb, noun, short adjective, or predicative adverbs.
mahnush eskandari, Ali Saeidi
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On the (non)-expletive uses of the preverbal negative ne/en in the history of (Low) German and Dutch
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2020 This article presents novel data from Middle High German, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch showing that two phenomena which often have been treated as one, namely the single former negative marker ne/en appearing in adverbial and complement clauses ...
Elisabeth Witzenhausen
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