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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   +3 more sources

Adverbial Clauses

The Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek, 2019
Adverbial clauses are known from traditional grammar as one of three major classes of subordinate clauses. They are semantically diverse and structurally complex.
Jingxia Lin
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Adverbial clauses

open access: yes, 2023
After questioning the traditional category “adverbial clause,” which, unlike “complement clause” and “relative clause,” is not syntactically defined, the inventory of the formal markers of this category is presented, which encompasses connectives; their possible correlatives in the main clause; and the verbal categories finiteness, mood, aspect, and ...
Weiss, Daniel
core   +3 more sources

Indirect adverbial clauses in chinese

open access: yesCahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, 1991
Indirect adverbial clauses are clauses with a conditional form that do not seem to give conditions, clauses with a temporal form that do not seem to indicate the time etc. For instance, the indirect conditional If you're hungry, there's food in the fridge differs semantically from the direct conditional If you're hungry, I'll give you something to eat.
Eifring, Halvor
openaire   +3 more sources

Adverbial clauses and their variation

Studies in Language Companion Series, 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
exaly   +2 more sources

Adverbial clauses and V3

Linguistics Vanguard, 2019
This 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 ...
Eva Csipak
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

English rationale since and a reassessment of the typology of adverbial clauses

open access: yesStudies in Language Companion Series, 2023
This chapter examines the syntactic and semantic properties of English causal adverbial clauses, starting from the fact that the conjunctions since and as can both introduce either a temporal clause or a rationale clause.
Liliane Haegeman, Haegeman Liliane
exaly   +3 more sources

Main clause phenomena and the derivation of adverbial clauses*

open access: yes, 2009
Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, Vol 18 (2009): Selected Papers from the 18th International Symposium on Theoretical and Aplied Linguistics, Thessaloniki 4-6 May ...
Haegeman, Liliane
openaire   +4 more sources

23. Adverbial clauses

A Grammar of Southern Min, 2020

semanticscholar   +2 more sources

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