Peripheral adverbial clauses show many differences from central adverbial clauses, one being that they allow certain root-phenomena, whereas central adverbial clauses do not allow any. A third class of adverbial clauses has to be distinguished, which in German contains continuative w-relatives and free dass-clauses. These allow more root-phenomena than the peripherals and show other signs of greater independence. The paper argues that central and peripheral adverbial clauses are differently licensed syntactically, the former by the host’s verbal projection, the latter by Force in the host’s periphery. Moreover, adverbials of the third class are not syntactically licensed at all; they are orphans, being only semantically linked to their associated clause by a specific discourse relation.
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2022. On the oppositions that underlie the distinctions displayed by Russian causal clauses. Linguistics 60:5 ► pp. 1399 ff.
Scheffler, Tatjana & Sophia A. Malamud
2023. “Won’t you?” reverse-polarity question tags in American English as a window into the semantics-pragmatics interface. Linguistics and Philosophy 46:6 ► pp. 1285 ff.
Tomioka, Satoshi
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