Syntactic function vadS
a deverbal word which precedes and modifies a sentence, a preposed sentence-adverb in traditional parlance.
These are notoriously difficult to distinguish from vadV, in particular when the subject is omitted. In these latter cases I think one should treat them as the more common vadV. A further complication arises from the fact that many apparent vadS are in fact anteposed adverbs rather than real logical sentential adverbs. NB: Sentential adverbs linking sentences, i.e. sentence connectives become vadS1.adS2 and the like.
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