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Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses
2023This collection presents novel insights into the micro- and macro-variation of causal clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic setting the scene and nine chapters based on data from Dutch, German, English, Icelandic, Chinese, and Japanese.
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Ceteris Paribus Clauses and Causality in Economics
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1988Explicit or implicit ceteris paribus clauses are pervasive in economics. People do not always buy more of x when the price of x decreases. The generalization holds only “other things being equal” or ceteris paribus. Not everybody wants more wealth, but economists have held that the generalization holds, ceteris paribus.
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Factors for the integration of causal clauses in the history of German
2023Abstract The variation between integrated (verb-final) and independent (verb-second) causal clauses in German could depend on the amount of information conveyed in that clause. A lower amount might lead to integration, a higher amount to independence, as processing constraints might forbid integration of highly informative clauses.
Augustin Speyer, Sophia Voigtmann
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Changing conventions in German causal clause complexes [PDF]
Languages in Contrast, 2013 This paper contributes to the field of diachronic corpus studies of linguistic change through language contact in translation by replicating Becher’s (2011) study which found a trend from hypotaxis to parataxis in concessive clause complexes of German popular scientific articles, and examining whether a comparable trend can be found in causal clause ...
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Point of view on causal clauses
2019Abstract This paper uses the case study of French clauses introduced by parce que ‘because’ and puisque ‘since’ to argue that causal clauses are intrinsically perspectival: the causal relation that they express is established by a causal ...
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Like subject verbs and causal clauses in English
Journal of Linguistics, 1974Perlmutter claimed (Perlmutter, 1968) that the like subject constraint in English is a deep structure constraint. Apart from being a contribution to a theory of filtering devices in natural languages, this claim is of interest because it is based on the assignment of abstract deep structures containing causal clauses which do not appear in surface ...
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Types of German causal clauses and their syntactic-semantic layers
2023Abstract This chapter aims to discuss some distinguishing syntactic and interpretative properties of German causal weil-clauses, da-clauses and verb-first causal clauses. The chapter argues that these different properties can be fruitfully analysed in Krifka’s (2018, to appear) system of decomposition of a speech act into the levels of a proposition ...
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Are kara ‘because’-clauses causal subordinate clauses in present-day Japanese?
2011This paper reviews subordination in conversation through grammaticalization. Traditionally, the Japanese kara ‘because’-clause has been characterized a causal subordinate clause. This study describes the various uses of kara-clauses in present-day Japanese and the historical background to the variety in clause combination.
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022Jun J Mao,, Msce +2 more
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