When since is used as a subordinator,it can introduce either a temporal adverbial clause or a causal one. My purpose in this paper is to study cases in which such a polysemy at the level of the subordinator results in the production of subordinates whose meaning proves to be ambiguous between the categories of time and cause. In addition to the taking into account of the context, whether exophoric or endophoric, I put forward a series of syntactic criteria which should help disambiguate between the two possible interpretations. These are based on the study of the characteristics of nearly five-hundred examples of since- clauses taken from the one-hundred-million-word British National Corpus of contemporary English. Still, a handful of examp...
International audienceRecordings made with Afro-Baloch informants in South-Eastern Iran show a surpr...
We investigate a novel use of the English temporal modifier 'now', in which it combines with a subor...
In the historical literature it is commonly assumed that subordinate clauses are derived from parata...
Lorsqu’il est utilisé en tant que subordonnant, since peut introduire une subordonnée circonstanciel...
This paper deals with clauses introduced by the subordinator since (hereafter SC’s), and more specif...
My work is a corpus-based investigation of the use and development of temporal subordinators and cla...
This book proposes an analysis of the properties of since clauses in contemporary English, based on ...
We investigate a novel use of the English temporal modifier ‘now’, in which it combines with a subor...
This paper is a corpus-based investigation of clause ordering in the English sentences which contain...
While different criteria are used in the literature in order to define subordinate clauses, these cl...
Traditional English grammar is still not clear on how to define and classify subordinators for finit...
Publiée dans une version écourtée aux Presses Universitaires de Provence (PUP), 2004This PhD is a st...
Building on previous work on the syntax and semantics of subordinate clauses, Arsenijević (2006) arg...
Contemporary grammars such as Biber et al. and Quirk et al. acknowledge the class of complex subordi...
This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a ...
International audienceRecordings made with Afro-Baloch informants in South-Eastern Iran show a surpr...
We investigate a novel use of the English temporal modifier 'now', in which it combines with a subor...
In the historical literature it is commonly assumed that subordinate clauses are derived from parata...
Lorsqu’il est utilisé en tant que subordonnant, since peut introduire une subordonnée circonstanciel...
This paper deals with clauses introduced by the subordinator since (hereafter SC’s), and more specif...
My work is a corpus-based investigation of the use and development of temporal subordinators and cla...
This book proposes an analysis of the properties of since clauses in contemporary English, based on ...
We investigate a novel use of the English temporal modifier ‘now’, in which it combines with a subor...
This paper is a corpus-based investigation of clause ordering in the English sentences which contain...
While different criteria are used in the literature in order to define subordinate clauses, these cl...
Traditional English grammar is still not clear on how to define and classify subordinators for finit...
Publiée dans une version écourtée aux Presses Universitaires de Provence (PUP), 2004This PhD is a st...
Building on previous work on the syntax and semantics of subordinate clauses, Arsenijević (2006) arg...
Contemporary grammars such as Biber et al. and Quirk et al. acknowledge the class of complex subordi...
This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a ...
International audienceRecordings made with Afro-Baloch informants in South-Eastern Iran show a surpr...
We investigate a novel use of the English temporal modifier 'now', in which it combines with a subor...
In the historical literature it is commonly assumed that subordinate clauses are derived from parata...