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Publication details [#26633]

Wang, Yu-Fang. 2002. The preferred information sequences of adverbial linking in Mandarin Chinese discourse. Text 22 (1) : 141–172.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0165-4888

Annotation

This study of adverbial clauses in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese discourse, reveals that, whilst conditional, concessive and temporal clauses occur before the material with which they are associated, causal clauses either take a final position with regard to the associated material (spoken data) or an -evenly distributed- initial or final position (written data).