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Competing motivations for the ordering of main and adverbial clauses *.
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Abstract
This article examines the ordering distribution of main and adverbial clauses. Using corpus data from spoken and written English, it is shown that the positioning of finite adverbial clauses vis-a-vis the main clause varies with their meaning or function: conditional clauses tend to precede the main clause, temporal clauses are common in both initial and final position, and causal clauses usually follow the main clause. The article argues that the positional pat...
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Degrees of clause integration: from endotactic to exotactic subordination in Dutch (1).
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
; Abstract This article presents a fine-grained syntactic categorization of Dutch subordinating conjunctions, both simple and phrasal. By means of a hierarchical set of formal criteria, this article provides a detailed description of the syntactic behavior of 87 conjunctions with a total of 154
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Mood selection: a look at Northern Nevada Latinos.
Academic Exchange Quarterly
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Sentential complementation in Akkadian.
The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; SCHEMATIC SUMMARY GUY DEUTSCHER'S RECENT BOOK comprises a number of studies that treat different facets of sentential complementation in Akkadian. Following a short introductory chapter, the second chapter is a general discussion of the term sentential complementation. The third is an introduction
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Dirimens copulatio and metalinguistic negation in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!(William Faulkner )
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