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In this paper we report the results of our investigations into the positions of adverbial clauses in a subset of the British ICE corpus. The subset consists of 42 texts drawn from six text types, three from written English and three from spoken English. We manually marked the adverbial clauses for their positions relative to their host clause, and for their semantic types. The paper attempts to identify some of the factors which influence the choice of position for various types of adverbial clause. Focussing on if‐clauses and when‐clauses, we conclude that, contrary to our expectations, clause length is not a significant positional factor. However, the semantic type of adverbial clauses does appear to be a major factor in the choice of position.

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