| Author(s) | Abdallah Alharbi |
| Affiliation | Associate Professor, Tabouk Community College King Abdul-Aziz University Branch at Tabouk, Saudi Arabia |
| Title | Articulated CP and Configurational Structures of Some Adverbial Clauses |
| Source | Journal of King Saud University. Arts. Volume 16, No 1. (2004/1424) |
| Abstract | This paper explores some subordinate clauses introduced by subordinating (elements), the CP dominating the embedded clause, and the configurational relationships between the superordinate and subordinate clauses. The standard assumption is that non-complement (adjunct) subordinate clauses are loosely attaching to main clauses. Furthermore, configurational relationships between main and subordinate structures are different from those in which subordinate structures are complements to some elements in main clauses. Therefore, one characteristic of this structure suggests some kind of flexibility in the order between the two clauses in complex structures without disturbing basic relationships. Another characteristic is that structural relationships reduce to particular structural configurations and feature matching. A third characteristic is that non-complement subordinate clauses are associated with particular adverbial meaning, e.g., purpose, conditional, temporal, etc. The analysis is based on Larson’s VP-Shell Structure, Kayne’s LCA theory and minor projections as proposed in Chomsky and Takano. The research investigates data from Arabic, Chinese, French, and English. Key words: Adverbial Subordinate Clauses, cP and CP structures, COMP, Feature-matching, VP-Shell analysis, LCA-based analysis. |
