Adverbial clauses with-igand the “until-puzzle”

The Status Change of Japanese Temporal Adverbial Clauses in SLA

Tense in Adjuncts Part 2: Temporal Adverbial Clauses

1. RECAPITULATION Part I of this article treats tense in relative clauses (RCs) in English, Russian and Japanese. The temporal centre in RCs can always be Tproi, and sometimes it has to be Tproi. 1. In SOT languages such as English, the Tense in the RC is bound in RC\wollconfigurations, i.e., we find a Tproi bound by woll. The licensing of the morphological tense in the RC is non-local in these...

Adverbial clauses and speaker and interlocutor gender in Shakespeare’s plays

This study draws on previous findings regarding adverbial clauses in relation to speaker and interlocutor gender in a corpus of current actual speaker data. Our aim is to examine those same relations in a corpus of Shakespeare’s comedies and histories. Mondorf (2004) investigated four types of adverbial clauses in a corpus of modern speech and found that the women used more causal, conditional ...

A puzzle about until and the Present Perfect

The anomaly is quite puzzling in the context of the quite standard assumptions that (a) perfect eventualities denote result states (McCoard 1978, Dowty 1979, Vlach 1983, Kamp and Reyle 1993), and (b) UNTIL is a stative modifier. Both assumptions would predict unobstructed compatibility between UNTIL phrases and the perfect. The observed incompatibility becomes even more intriguing when we see t...

Iconicity of sequence: A corpus-based analysis of the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses in English

Recent work in functional and cognitive linguistics has argued and presented evidence that the positioning of adverbial clauses is motivated by competing pressures from syntactic parsing, discourse pragmatics, and semantics. Continuing this line of research, the current paper investigates the e¤ect of the iconicity principle on the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses. The iconicity princi...