The relative/conjunction interface: A study of the syntax of<i>while/whilst</i>in present‐day English∗

Trotta, Joe; Seppänen, Aimo

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“…Considering that relative adverbs are sensitive to those refined semantic differences, the contrast between those adverbs and relative that becomes even bigger. For a comprehensive study of relative while see Trotta and Seppänen 1998. controversial as its current syntactic status. Some scholars trace it back to the Old English pronoun þaet; others view it as going back to the subordinating conjunction þaet.…”

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“…In the descriptive grammar by Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik (henceforth Quirk et al) that is treated as a relative pronoun (1985:366). Seppänen and Kjellmer (1995:396), Trotta and Seppänen (1998), and most explicitly Seppänen (1993; reject the complementiser analysis in favour of the pronoun analysis. Kim and Sells (2008), too, treat that as a relative pronoun in their very recent introduction to English syntax mainly based on the feature structure system of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.…”

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Von Puritanern, Relativsätzen und wandelbaren Frauengestalten

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2009

Göttinger Schriften Zur Englischen Philologie

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Section: Diachronic Excursus: On the History Of Relative Thatmentioning

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Section: Introduction and Survey Of Previous Studiesmentioning

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Von Puritanern, Relativsätzen und wandelbaren Frauengestalten

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2009

Göttinger Schriften Zur Englischen Philologie

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“…In the descriptive grammar by Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik (henceforth Quirk et al) that is treated as a relative pronoun (1985:366). Seppänen and Kjellmer (1995:396), Trotta and Seppänen (1998), and most explicitly Seppänen (1993;2000) reject the complementiser analysis in favour of the pronoun analysis. Kim and Sells (2008), too, treat that as a relative pronoun in their very recent introduction to English syntax mainly based on the feature structure system of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.…”

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The Proform/Conjunction Interface: A Study of the Syntax of Relative 'That'

Weber¹

2009

Göttinger Schriften Zur Englischen Philologie

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On the divergent developments of two German causal subjunctions

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Axel-Tober

2023

Studies in Language Companion Series

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This chapter discusses the development of two German causal subjunctions weil and zumal. In particular, it introduces a new proposal for the syntactic reanalysis of weil in the C0-position from a free relative clause. Later, weil-clauses also underwent a shift in meaning in the course of which weil developed from a temporal into a causal subjunction. The development of temporal into causal meaning is widely-attested cross-linguistically. This chapter argues that in the case of German, the actuation of this general path was probably enabled by prior extensions of the temporal meaning, which had made the subjunction into a universal subjunction of simultaneity relations. The subjunction zumal, by contrast, developed from the combination zumal weil ‘especially since’ after zumal had been reanalyzed in the C0-position. The reanalysis only concerned the internal syntax of the clause. Its external syntax and the meaning remained stable and corresponded to zumal weil-clauses. Based on these findings, it will be argued more generally that the development of new elements in the C0-position takes place through the fusion of the properties of the new and the old C0-elements. After the reanalysis, the new C0-element has the subordinating force of the old C0-element as well as the semantic content of the new and the old C0-element.

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The relative/conjunction interface: A study of the syntax ofwhile/whilstin present‐day English∗

Cited by 3 publications

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Von Puritanern, Relativsätzen und wandelbaren Frauengestalten

Von Puritanern, Relativsätzen und wandelbaren Frauengestalten

The Proform/Conjunction Interface: A Study of the Syntax of Relative 'That'

On the divergent developments of two German causal subjunctions

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