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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Jesus Francisco Olguin Martinez <olguinmartinez@ucsb.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, 25 February 2021 at 12:18 PM<br>
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<b>Subject: </b>[Lingtyp] Attributive temporal clauses without temporal nouns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">I am currently writing my dissertation on temporal adverbial clauses in the languages of the world. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"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).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">As discussed by Diessel (2019: 106), in some languages the temporal noun can be omitted resulting in constructions such as the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">1. At (the time) you came, I saw you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">2. (the time) that you came, I saw you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"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:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">3. LOCATIVE (temporal noun) RELATIVIZER/RELATIVE PRONOUN.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">4. LOCATIVE (temporal noun).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">5. (temporal noun) RELATIVIZER/RELATIVE PRONOUN.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">6. DEMONSTRATIVE (temporal noun).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"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?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Thank you very much in advance. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121">Jesús Olguín Martínez</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121">University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)</span></i><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121"><a href="http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/jes%C3%BAs-olgu%C3%ADn-mart%C3%ADnez" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/jesús-olguín-martínez</span></a></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121">References</span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Diessel, Holger. 2019. Preposed adverbial clauses: Functional adaptation and diachronic inheritance. In Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, Natalia Levshina, Susanne Maria Michaelis, & Ilja Seržant
(eds.), <i>Explanation in linguistic typology: Diachronic sources, functional motivations and the nature of the evidence</i>, 97-122. Leipzig: Language Science Press.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121">Hetterle Katja. 2015.
<i>Adverbial clauses in cross-linguistic perspective. </i>Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222">Olguín Martínez, Jesús. 2020. Attributive temporal clauses in cross-linguistic perspective.
<i>Te Reo</i>. <i>The Journal of the</i> <i>Linguistic Society of New Zealand </i>
63<i>: </i>1-36.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Thompson, Sandra, Robert Longacre,
</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121">&</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> Shin Hwang. 2007. Adverbial clauses. In Timothy Shopen, (ed.),
</span><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121">Language typology and syntactic description</span></i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121">
<i>volume II: Complex constructions</i>,</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black"> 237- 300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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