The Syntactic Integration of Adverbial Clauses
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This work takes an experimental approach to address the notoriously puzzling attachment of adverbial clauses to their host clauses. On the basis of experiments gathering well-formedness judgements, the author shows that a multifactorial account which reflects both syntactic and processing factors is required in order to capture this complex phenomenon. The author also demonstrates that a new structural factor - "clause-command" - more successfully accounts for the anaphorical relations between clauses than traditional c-command.