SENTENCE ADVERBIALS IN A FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- 0. INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- 1.1. Comments on previous approaches -- 1.2. The theoretical background -- 2. THE PRIMARY CASE OF THE UNDERLYING OCCURRENCE OF CA EXPRESSIONS -- 2.1. The paradigm of the primary case -- 2.2. Generalizing about CA -- 2.3. Groups of CA expressions -- 3. SECONDARY CASES OF THE UNDERLYING OCCURRENCE OF CA EXPRESSIONS -- 3.1. Multiple occurrence of CA expressions on the hierarchical scope interpretation -- 3.2 Multiple occurrence of CA expressions on the intracluster scope interpretation -- 3.3. Occurrence of CA expressions in wh-questions -- 3.4. CA expressions with underlying backward scope -- 3.5. Occurrence of CA expressions in the topic of a sentence -- 3.6. Occurrence of CA expressions in embedded structures -- 3.7. Coordination and apposition of CA expressions -- 3.8. CA expressions in parenthetical chunks of sentences -- 4. SURFACE PROPERTIES OF CA EXPRESSIONS -- 4.1. Scope-unambiguous positions -- 4.2. Scope-ambiguous positions -- 4.3. Illustration -- 5. FORMATION OF CA EXPRESSIONS -- 5.1. Morphological formation -- 5.2. Syntactic formation -- 5.3. Deep word-order based formation -- 5.4. Formation by lexicalization of collocations -- 6. LEXICAL PROPERTIES OF CA EXPRESSIONS -- 6.1. Salva veníate paraphrasing and lexical relations of CA expressions -- 6.2. Salva veritate omissibility of CA expressions -- 6.3. Pronominalization and deletion of CA expressions -- 6.4. Distribution of CA expressions -- 6.5. Scoping relations of CA expressions -- 6.5.1. Hierarchical scope interpretation -- 6.5.2. Intracluster scope interpretation -- 6.6. Listing CA expressions -- 7. CONCLUSION -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES.