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Adverbial clauses and adverbial concord
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
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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The Structure and Function of Yemsa Adverbial Clauses: Empirical Study
Дискурс профессиональной коммуникацииYemsa, an Omotic language spoken in Ethiopia, has received limited attention in linguistic research, particularly with regard to its adverbial clauses. The lack of a comprehensive description of Yemsa’s adverbial clauses hinders our understanding of the ...
M. Asrat, G. Mengistu, E. Assefa
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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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Adverbial clauses: Internally rich, externally null
Glossa, 2019 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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Illocutionary Force of Adverbial Clauses: Evidence from German
Научный диалогThis 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
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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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Topic extraction from adverbial clauses
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2016 This paper offers new data to support findings about Topic extraction from adverbial clauses. Since such clauses are strong islands, they should not allow extraction of any kind, but we show here that if the appropriate conditions are met, Topics of the ...
Carlos Rubio Alcalá
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On the position of central adverbial clauses
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2009 One major concern of syntactic theory has been the identification of the structural position of adjuncts in the clausal architecture with the ultimate goal of explaining their properties in a number of respects.
Vidal Valmala
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Temporal adverbial clauses: A cross-linguistic perspective
Lingua Posnaniensis, 2023 The study explores the form and function of ‘when’, ‘while’, ‘after’, ‘before’, and ‘until’ clauses in a variety sample of 218 languages. First, it is demonstrated that temporal adverbial clauses tend to be encoded with conjunctions and converbs in the ...
Jesús Olguín Martínez
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