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Another Glance at Main Clause Phenomena

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Dwight Bolinger
Dwight Bolinger*
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Palo Alto, California
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Abstract

Green 1976 shows that restrictions on main clause phenomena occurring in subordinate clauses are not capable of strict formalization, but respond to a variety of ‘syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic’ factors. This assessment is correct—more so than she gives it credit for: if we take more such factors into account and add elements like thematic structure and prosody, a number of the restrictions she has retained give way.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , September 1977 , pp. 511 - 519
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Copyright © 1977 by Linguistic Society of America

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