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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]

Isogloss
This 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 Udmurt: Postpositional phrases and the case of the adverbial case [PDF]

Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, 2023
This paper presents three types of non-finite adverbial clauses in Udmurt: the ones encoded with the suffixes -(e)mja, -(o)nja, and -(o)ńńa. I propose that these suffixes should be decomposed morphologically and that these non-­finite adverbial clauses ...
Georgieva, Ekaterina
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Adverbial Clauses

, 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 ...
Weiss, Daniel
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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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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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Illocutionary Force of Adverbial Clauses: Evidence from German [PDF]

Научный диалог
This 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 [PDF]

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 [PDF]

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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The Structure and Function of Yemsa Adverbial Clauses: Empirical Study

Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации
Yemsa, 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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