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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research background
1.2 Purpose and significance of the study
1.3 Arrangement of the thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Previous research abroad
2.1.1 Previous research on adverbial clauses
2.1.2 Previous research on concessive adverbial clauses
2.2 Previous research at home
2.3 Previous studies on competing factors for the positioning of adverbial clauses
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework
3.1 Central tenets of cognitive sociolinguistics
3.2 Usage-based probabilistic grammar
Chapter 4 Research Design
4.1 Research questions
4.2 Corpus used in the study
4.3 Variables and data annotation
4.4 Research procedures
4.5 Statistical methods
Chapter 5 Results and Discussion
5.1 Results of descriptive statistics
5.2 Discussion on the regression results
5.3 Summary
Chapter 6 Conclusion
6.1 Major findings
6.2 Implications
6.3 Limitations and suggestions for further research
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