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Diessel, Holger
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Article
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2005
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
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English
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This article examines the ordering distribution of main and adverbial clauses. Using corpus data from spoken and written English, it is shown that the positioning of finite adverbial clauses vis-a `-vis the main clause varies with their meaning or function: conditional clauses tend to precede the ma