Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational interaction?
List of illustrationsList of tablesAcknowledgementsTranscription conventions1Introduction12Overview of the conversational corpus213Initial adverbial clauses264Final versus initial adverbial clauses in continuous intonation635Final adverbial clauses after ending intonation1026Comparison of clause types and apparent deviations from the general patterns1317Conclusion146Notes151References155Author index161Subject index163