The Hierarchy for Adverbial Relations in Japanese

This paper examines the compound conjunction that forms the system of adverbial relations. I will demonstrate the system of adverbial relations as follows. The adverbial relations with the compound conjunction are classified into the inflectional type that consists of "inflection of the word + affix" and the conjunctive particle type that consists of "sentence + conjunctive particle." Moreover, I will also argue that the inflectional type of the adverbial relations is classified in 7 part as hierarchy. And this classification is supported at the semantic features, the morphological features and the features of the notional level of sentences