Iconicity of sequence: A corpus-based analysis of the positioning of temporal adverbial clauses in English

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 465-490

  Diessel, Holger ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competing motivations; Constituent order; Iconicity; Logistic regression; Temporal adverbial clauses

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949103398     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COGL.2008.018     Document Type: Article

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