The Information Structure of Adverbial Clauses in Chinese Discourse

This study investigated adverbial clauses in spoken as well as written Chinese discourse. The adverbial clauses in the spoken data were categorized into (i) initial clauses that occur in the initial position with respect to their linked material across continuing intonation, (ii) final clauses that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yu-Fang Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Crane Publishing Co 2006-06-01
Series:Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
Online Access:http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume4-1/Adverbial%20clause%200615.pdf