Adverbial Clauses

Adverbial Clauses

1. Clauses that serve an adverbial function

   • They modify a verb phrase or a wholeclause
     • Longacre and Thompson 1985

2. Sometimes adverbial clauses are termed adjuncts

3. Adverbial clauses and phrases attach to already complete clauses

   • The adverbial clause adds some information to what is expressed in the other clause

4. Adverbial clauses have the same form as complement clauses

   • Purpose
   • Reason
   • Sequence

5. The kind of information expressed in adverbial clauses is similar to information expressed by adverbs

   • Time
   • Place
   • Manner
   • Purpose
   • Reason

6. There are several types of adverbial clauses

   • Time or temporal adverbial clauses
   • Location or locative adverbial clauses
   • Manner adverbial clauses
   • Purpose adverbial clauses
   • Reason and cause adverbial clauses

7. Conditional clauses

   • Conditional clauses express situations that may or may not hold true
     • Whether a conditional clause is understood as true or not determines or influences the truth value of the independent clause in the construction
       • Simple conditional clauses
       • Counterfactual conditional clause
       • Negative conditional clause
       • Concessive conditional clause