[Lingtyp] 'From...to....' clauses

Jesus Francisco Olguin Martinez olguinmartinez at ucsb.edu
Sun Jul 24 03:09:48 UTC 2022


Dear all,

I hope this message finds you well.

I send you this email because I was wondering if you know any studies that
have explored 'from...to...' clauses, as in (1).

(1). *From the moment he was born until the moment he died*, *he never
prayed*.

This temporal construction is interesting because it involves a point of
departure, a 'from' clause, and an endpoint, a 'to' clause.

Many sources of Dogon and Mesoamerican languages contain detailed
descriptions of this type of temporal adverbial clause.

I was wondering if you know any study that has explored this construction.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance!

Best,

-- 
Jesús Olguín Martínez
Ph.D, Dept. of Linguistics
*University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)*
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Dissertation:
Olguín Martínez, Jesús. 2022. *Temporal adverbial clauses in the languages
of the world: Clause-linking strategies*. Ph.D. dissertation, University of
California, Santa Barbara.

Recent publications:
Olguín Martínez, Jesús & Nicholas Lester.  2022. A quantitative analysis of
counterfactual conditionals in the world’s languages. *Italian Journal of
Linguistics 33*. 147-182.
Olguín Martínez, Jesús. 2021. ‘As if’ constructions in world-wide
perspective. *Journal Linguistic typology at the crossroads* 1. 2-33.
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