Processing Factors of Pre- and Postposed Adverbial Clauses

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 ...

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...

A Corpus-Based Study of Adverbial Clauses in Mandarin Chinese Conversations : A Preliminary Analysis

Yu-Fang Wang Graduate Institute of English , National Taiwan Normal University Abstract In conversation, adverbial clause subordination is most commonly achieved through temporal, conditional, concessive, and causal conjunctions, such as dang (` when'), ruguoCin, suiran (`although'), yinwei (` because'), etc. in Mandarin Chinese. This study aims at exploring adverbial clauses in spoken Mandarin...

Temporal and Conditional Clauses in Chinese Spoken Discourse : A Function-based Study

It is generally agreed that different categories of adverbial clauses—temporal, conditional, and causal clauses may have their different performances of distribution and functions in different positions as preposed vs. postposed. and Wang (1996), temporal and conditional clauses in both English and Chinese tend to occur in the initial position (preposed) while causal ones tend to occur in the f...