New York: John Wiley, 1982. The Hague: Mouton, 1974. Adverbial clauses mainly trigger a structural (re)interpretation of some portions of discourse, with interpretative frames and scopes ranging from a single segment to a whole series of tone-units. . They are more concerned with the organisational level of discourse, mainly giving information about the structure of these referents, and about the expression of a stance. Hand and Mind: What gestures Reveal about Thought. “The Discourse Functions of Sentence-initial Adverbials: Studies in Comprehension.” Proceedings of Linguistic & Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Structuring. The selected occurrences were classified according to their syntactic type in Praat (restrictive relative clause, adverbial clause, appositive relative clause). 11This study focuses on appositive relative clauses introduced by “which” as a conjunction. In conversational English, adverbial clauses tend to follow the clause they modify (Miller and Weinert 1998) as seen in example (1) featuring an anaphoric adverbial connection. Their capacity to form distinct illocutionary acts (, Peterson 2004; Holler 2005) is one of such properties. (1995) and to Van Kuppevelt (1995), discourse is composed of series of s, The corpus was segmented in discourse sequences (, narrative, argumentation, series of questions-answers, description). According to Dancygier and Sweetser (2000), “when” clauses engage the speaker to the reality of the mental space built in the “main” clause, even when this reality has already occurred or has not occurred yet. SUBORDINATE CLAUSES AND INTERRUPTION CLAUSES Maynard M. Eyestone University of Michigan ENGLISH displays a series of clauses whose functions represent gradual steps from subordination to complete lack of grammati- cal 1. Subordinate constructions have been described in syntax as dependent structures elaborating on primary elements of discourse. The majority of adverbial clauses are full speech acts. In (5), Tom links “black pudding” with the non-neutral adjective “disgusting”. In separate tracks, gaze direction was annotated as either towards the co-participant or away, eyebrow movement distinguished between rise and frown, and hand gestures were categorised into iconics, metaphorics, pointings, beats, emblems, butterworths, and adaptators, drawing mainly from McNeill’s typology (2005). The total column gives the number of features present in sequences (L+Sc+R) that contain an Adverbial Clause. Selting, Margret. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Halliday, Michael A. K. and Ruqaiya Hasan. On the contrary, main clauses should feature process verbs and express dynamicity. Granström, Björn and David House. 101Sharing the same tone-unit as L and containing the prosodic nucleus, Sc shows more movement than R, with a 68-Hz F0 variation. “Understanding Non-restrictive Which-clauses in Spoken English, Which is not an Easy Thing.”, Thompson, Sandra A. and Robert E. Longacre. These modes do not work independently from one another, although a particular mode may weigh more than the others at some points. . “Adverbial Clauses.” In Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Complex Constructions. Repeated gestures throughout an interaction create coherence in terms of discourse (Lascarides and Stone 2009). Although no systematic relation holds between gesture types and gesture functions, the representational function is usually performed by types such as iconics, deictics, and some metaphorics. His gaze also shortly leaves the co-speaker for the left side, as he goes through some processing and/or projecting difficulties. 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