有些定语从句形式上虽然是定语，但在作用和意义上则是状语，可表示原因、让步、目的、条件以及时间等等。

Some of attributive clauses are adverbials in action and meaning though they are attributive clauses in form. And such clauses can express cause, purpose, condition, time and so on.

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本文为动词同宾结构提供了一个统一的解释：这些句子中的V_2（连同其空主语和空宾语）本质上是目的性状语从句。

I will provide a uniform explanation for OSC in this dissertation: V2 (with its null subject and null object) is essentially a purpose clause modifying the matrix clause.

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本文为动词同宾结构提供了一个统一的解释：这些句子中的V_2（连同其空主语和空宾语）本质上是目的性状语从句。

I will provide a uniform explanation for OSC in this dissertation: V2 (with its null subject and null object) is essentially a purpose clause modifying the matrix clause.

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