RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Lahousse, Karen YR 2010 T1 Information structure and epistemic modality in adverbial clauses in French JF Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language” VO 34 IS 2 SP 298 OP 326 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.34.2.03lah PB John Benjamins SN 0378-4177, AB In this paper it is argued that, contrary to what is often assumed, embedded adverbial clauses have an information structure articulation independent from that of the main clause. More particularly, it is shown that the specific way in which information structure is expressed in adverbial clauses depends on the possibility vs. impossibility of epistemic qualification in the adverbial clause. The claim is based on new empirical evidence concerning the distribution of a clearly information structure-driven syntactic configuration: verb-subject word order in French., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/sl.34.2.03lah