From this perspective, it is not a coincidence at all that constructions involving mental state relations run into difficulties with presupposition: because the
subordinate clauses belong to the domain of a third party, their content is simply not within the control of the speaker to presuppose or assert.
In (66) the
subordinate clause is asserted, while in (67) it is not, and in (68) the event of going is understood as actually realized, while in (69) its realization may be situated in the hypothetical future.
On the other hand, in academic expository texts, conjunctions are significant indicators of the semantic relationships between clauses and segments of the text, therefore, conjunctions are used to embed
subordinate clauses into main clauses in order to foreground propositional meaning.
Patrizia Lendinara, in her essay of 1997, mentions as evidence of her claim that AEthelberht was modeled on "the Latin codes of the Continental Germani in style and layout" the structural similarities between
subordinate clauses in both the Latin codes and AEthelberht: "Si quis ...," she argues, is reproduced by "Gif man ..." (if one man).
The comma is omitted when the
subordinate clause is restrictive, that is, when it limits the meaning of a word in the main clause or is otherwise essential to the meaning of the sentence.
As in other examples of IA, the formal properties of the head are determined by the
subordinate clause. However, no case marking is present, therefore the standard explanation that the head borrowed the case of the relative pronoun is inapplicable to (21).
These connect a
subordinate clause to a main clause.
Intonation presents us with a vital clue in this case, as the latter part of the example appears almost like an afterthought, and instead of expressing this as a complement clause as in Portuguese, the main clause 'I want (it)' is juxtaposed to the
subordinate clause 'CIMI enters'.
However, what may be more relevant for the Syriac translator is that it occurs in a past time
subordinate clause, since the context is a parable/illustration that is set in the past.
In example (2), however, all three versions use the same element order in the
subordinate clause. Both examples are of
subordinate clauses, but these examples show that even in
subordinate clauses the element order may vary between the ordinary "past ptc.
"The use of the word `should' in the introductory
subordinate clause will create confusion in the minds of many voters because, as the first word in a ballot question, it makes it appear that the ballot question is asking whether legalized gaming should be approved in Massachusetts," Mr.
