a miscellaneous list of “particular clauses”: substantival (with noun-like functions), relative, circumstantial, negative, interrogative, exclamatory, optative, asseverative, curse and oath, temporal, conditional, final, consecutive, causal and explicative, concessive, adversative, exceptive, comparative, disjunctive. There does not seem to be any awareness that these categories occupy several taxonomic dimensions—logical, pragmatic, and text type. This, again, is the traditional approach, as can