摘要:This book presents a corpus-based study of adverbial subordinate clauses in
English. As the subtitle implies, it is done within the Functional Grammar
framework of S.C. Dik (FG hereafter). A significant aspect of this study is that it
is based on an empirical analysis of corpus data: 3,722 examples of adverbial
subordinate clauses retrieved from the LOB Corpus. The method of analysis is,
as the author declares, .largely based on the typological study of adverbial
clauses carried out by Hengeveld (1998)..