<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Dear all,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">I hope this email finds you well.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">I am currently writing my dissertation on temporal adverbial clauses in the languages of the world. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">As you know, many languages express temporal adverbial relations (e.g. <i>when</i>-relations, <i>while</i>-relations) by means of constructions that appear with temporal nouns (e.g. 'time' 'day', 'year'; e.g. 'the time they arrived, they sat down'; Thompson et al 2007; Hetterle 2015; Diessel 2019; Olguín Martínez 2020).</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">As discussed by Diessel (2019: 106), in some languages the temporal noun can be omitted resulting in constructions such as the following:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">1. At (the time) you came, I saw you.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">2. (the time) that you came, I saw you.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">In the sample of my dissertation, I came across 56 languages not genetically related that seem to use this type of construction, as a primary strategy, to express various semantic types of adverbial clauses. The most common patterns I have found in the sample are the following:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">3. LOCATIVE (temporal noun) RELATIVIZER/RELATIVE PRONOUN.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">4. LOCATIVE (temporal noun).</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">5. (temporal noun) RELATIVIZER/RELATIVE PRONOUN.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">6. DEMONSTRATIVE (temporal noun).</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Are you aware of any studies that have addressed this phenomenon? Are you aware of any languages that express temporal adverbial relations by means of this type of construction?</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Thank you very much in advance. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Best regards,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><font face="georgia, serif">-- <br></font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Jesús Olguín Martínez</font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Linguistics</font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><i>University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)</i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/jes%C3%BAs-olgu%C3%ADn-mart%C3%ADnez" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/jesús-olguín-martínez</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default">References</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><font size="2"><span class="gmail_default"></span></font><span style="color:black;text-align:justify">Diessel, Holger. 2019. Preposed adverbial clauses: Functional
adaptation and diachronic inheritance. In Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, Natalia
Levshina, Susanne Maria Michaelis, & Ilja Seržant (eds.), </span><i style="color:black;text-align:justify">Explanation in linguistic typology:
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97-122. Leipzig: Language Science Press.</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="text-align:justify">Hetterle Katja. 2015. </span><i style="text-align:justify">Adverbial
clauses in cross-linguistic perspective. </i><span style="text-align:justify">Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="text-align:justify;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Olguín Martínez, Jesús. 2020. Attributive
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