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The syntax of peripheral adverbial clauses [PDF]
Journal 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
Linda Badan, L. Haegeman
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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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On adverbial clauses in Udmurt
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 are to be analyzed as postpositional phrases.
Georgieva, Ekaterina
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The distribution of functional-pragmatic types of clefts in adverbial clauses
Linguistics, 2014 This paper presents the results of corpus research on the distribution of different functional-pragmatic types of it-clefts and c'est-clefts in English and French adverbial clauses.
Karen Lahousse
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The role of iconicity in children's production of adverbial clauses. [PDF]
CognitionYoung children's comprehension of adverbial clauses is significantly affected by iconicity, which refers to whether the order of information in the sentence reflects the order of events in the real world.
Shijie Zhang +2 more
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Contact-Induced Language Change: the Case of Mixtec Adverbial Clauses
Journal of Language Contact, 2022 It is now clear that languages not-genetically related can come to share syntactic structures that were not necessarily borrowed directly in their modern forms.
Jesús Olguín Martínez
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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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Lanaguage Research, 2021 This study aims to examine subordinate clauses marked by ‘-un kesi’ and ‘-un kesul’, which function as internally-headed RCs and adverbial clauses. It begins by surveying the restriction in the formation of internally-headed RCs and describes how this ...
Ji-Eun Lee
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ADJECTIVE CLAUSES AND ADVERBIAL CLAUSES IN “THE SECRET GARDEN” BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
INFERENCE: Journal of English Language Teaching, 2021 This research aims to analyze the adjective and adverbial clauses in “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The method used in this research is a content analysis which is to describes the adjective clause and adverbial clause in the novel. Data
A. Sumardi, Mashadi Said
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