That-adverbials in Cameroon English  

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SALA, BONAVENTURE M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Englishes (Full Text) vol. 29 no. 1 (Mar. 2010), page 127-137.
Fulltext: p. 127-137.pdf (92.15KB)

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This paper examines that-adverbials in Cameroon English. That-adverbials are that-clauses that appear in adjunct position. We have explained the phenomenon by positing formal coalescence, according to which there is structural levelling-out so that structurally similar sentences carry different meanings depending on context. On the basis of their immutability, formal disadverbialization has been posited and that-adverbials have been termed unmarked complements. It is also a property of that-adverbials that they can be questioned, unlike other subordinate clauses in British English (BrE). When this happens, the sentence is meant to be a reproach and the relationship between the superordinate and the subordinate clauses is that of non-reason, which is not attested in BrE. Contrast needs to hold between the main and the subordinate clauses for that-adverbials to be generated. The verb in the main clause must either be in the past or have no implication for future action. That-adverbials can co-appear with that-complements. In such a case, both clauses, with different functions, are not conjoins but form a continuum of the same sentence.f conf

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