Frontmatter -- Acknowledglements -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical and Methodological Preliminaries -- 3. The Structure of Adverbial Clauses in Cross- Linguistic Perspective -- 4. The Downgrading Hierarchy of Adverbial Clauses -- 5. The Intra-Categorial Conceptual Space of Adverbial Clauses: The Multifunctionality of Adverbial Relations -- 6. Conclusions and Outlook -- References -- Appendices -- Index of authors -- Index of languages -- Index of subjects