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The Syntax of Peripheral Adverbial Clauses [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Linguistics, 2022
This paper explores the relation between the interpretations of while in English and mentre in Italian introducing adverbial clauses. Central while/mentre clauses express a temporal/aspectual modification of the proposition in the host clause. Peripheral
Liliane Haegeman, Linda Badan
exaly   +3 more sources

Adverbial Clauses in English and Norwegian Fiction and News

open access: yesYearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, 2017
This paper considers the placement of adverbial clauses in English and Norwegian with regard to their form, meaning, information status and semantic relation to the matrix clause proposition.
Hilde Hasselgård
exaly   +2 more sources

Adverbial Clauses

2015
Jingxia Lin
exaly   +2 more sources

Adverbial clauses and their variation

2023
Abstract In this introduction chapter, we depict the variation of adverbial clauses focusing on causal clauses in German. We briefly overview the most important findings both from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, and embed them into a more general discussion on adverbial clause-linkage.
Łukasz Jędrzejowski   +1 more
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Reduced Adverbial Clause in English

open access: yesEnglish Education and Literature Journal, 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.
exaly   +3 more sources

Adverbial clauses and V3

Linguistics Vanguard, 2019
AbstractThis paper discusses word order effects in German adverbial clauses: often, the matrix clause can exhibit either V2 or V3 word order. I argue that adverbial clauses with V3 word order have an obligatory ‘biscuit’ interpretation and receive a speech act modifying interpretation, as has previously only been argued for ‘biscuit conditionals’.
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The subjunctive in adverbial clauses

2020
This chapter explores the frequency development of the subjunctive and its competitors, namely indicatives and modal constructions, in the adverbial clauses of a corpus covering the periods Old English (OE), Middle English (ME), and Early Modern English (EModE). It also describes the influence of the parameters text category, adverbial clause type, and
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