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This volume provides a broad overview of the question of adverbials at the syntax/discourse interface, covering a variety of different languages – French, English, German, Norwegian and Finnish – and using different frameworks such as Cognitive Grammar, Constructional Grammar, Grammaticalization Theory, experimental approaches and formal approaches developed in Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT). It offers a rich insight into the functions linked to adverbial positioning. One of the main claims defended in this book is that the initial position itself plays a specific role in discourse cohesion.
At issue is the grammaticalization of this initial position, seen as a privileged locus for categorical changes and for the emergence of various discourse functions of adverbials such as discourse markers, connectives and framing adverbials.
It is hoped that contributions in this volume will lead to a better understanding of the complex interplay of competing motivations affecting the use of adverbials in discourse.
Introduction
1. Adverbials: from predicative to discourse functions
Laure Sarda, Shirley Carter-Thomas, Benjamin Fagard & Michel Charolles
I. Lexicalization and subjectification: adverbials in the predicate zone
2. A paradoxical case of locative inversion in French
Catherine Fuchs
3. Path settings: How dynamic conceptualization permits the use of path expressions as setting adverbials
Tuomas Huumo
II. Initial positioning and text organization: a focus on indexing strategies
4. Sentence-initial adverbials in written texts: On discourse functions and cognitive motivations
Tuija Virtanen
5. The positioning of adverbials: discourse function reconsidered
Peter Crompton
6. Sentence-initial adverbials and text comprehension
Yves Bestgen & Sophie Piérard
III. From adverbials to discourse (structure) markers: which grammaticalization path?
7. The French adverbial dans un premier temps and Discourse Relations: From Elaboration to Contrast
Myriam Bras & Catherine Schnedecker
8.From local adverbials to discourse markers: Three case studies in the diachrony of French
Benjamin Fagard & Laure Sarda
9. Word order and the development of connective markers in English
Diana Lewis
IV. Translation perspectives on adverbial clause positioning
10. Discourse role guiding clause type and position in translation
Bergljot Behrens & Kåre Solfjeld
11. Discourse-coordinating or discoursesubordinating? The discourse function of clauserelated relative clauses in a translation perspective
Wiebke Ramm