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The syntax of adverbial clauses
The chapter argues for an approach according to which adverbial clauses are derived by movement of an operator to the left periphery. It is shown that this hypothesis will allow for an elegant account for the distribution of main clause phenomena in ...
Haegeman, Liliane
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Constructions commonly called adverbial clauses in traditional grammar are seen in Functional Grammar (FG) as expressions of satellites. FG's multi-layered model of the abstract underlying clause structure assumes each single layer consists of a certain
Kwee Tjoe Liong
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Reduced Adverbial Clause In English
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.
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This article analyzes the distribution of conditional clauses in multiple complementizer constructions, showing that preposed adverbial clauses could occupy in early Italo-Romance varieties different specifier positions within the left periphery of ...
Nicola Munaro
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On the position of central adverbial clauses
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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This journal article examines the grammatical construction of some TV news headlines, highlighting the issues that arise due to their structure. The primary concern is that the headlines use adverbial clauses or phrases of reason before the main clauses ...
Kukuh Prayitno Subagyo +3 more
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On the internal and external syntax of adverbial clauses in Faroese:Causal and temporal clauses [PDF]
Recent and current research into the syntax of adverbial clauses has been investigating their external syntax (in particular where they attach to their host clause), their internal syntax (in particular whether or not they exhibit certain “root phenomena,
Angantýsson, Ásgrímur +1 more
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Adverbial clauses of time in spoken Lithuanian
The paper examines adverbial clauses of time in spoken Lithuanian. The data have been collected from The Corpus of Contemporary Lithuanian Language, namely its sub-corpus of spoken language. The aim of the study is to describe the structure of adverbial
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė +1 more
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The movement analysis of temporal adverbial clauses
In the literature it has been proposed that temporal adverbial clauses can be derived by wh-movement of an operator (e.g. when) to the left periphery (Geis 1970, 1975; Enç 1987: 655; Larson 1987, 1990; Dubinsky & Williams 1995; Declerck 1997; Demirdache &
Haegeman, Liliane
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Syntactic Variability in Spoken English Discourse through Age Dimensions
The present article demonstrates certain syntactic expressions of the informal spoken English discourse among native speakers belonging to different age groups.
Karen Velyan
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