Adverbial causal clauses as relative clauses [PDF]
IsoglossThis paper investigates to what extent adverbial causal clauses and relative clauses can be reduced as one and the same phenomenon. Whereas causal clauses have always posed a challenge for a unified account of relativization and adverbial subordination ...
Emanuela Sanfelici, Sira Rodeghiero
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The Functions of Danish Causal Conjunctions [PDF]
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 In the article I propose an analysis of the Danish causal conjunctions fordi, siden and for based on the framework of Danish Functional Grammar. As conjunctions they relate two clauses, and their semantics have in common that it indicates a causal ...
Rita Therkelsen
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The Syntax of Causal Clauses in Taiwan Southern Min
Studies in Chinese LinguisticsCausal clauses in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) are an issue that has long been ignored. Based on data drawn from corpora and recordings, by means of a diagnostic based on locality effect (Pan and Paul 2018; Pan and Zhu 2023), we argue that in’ui ‘because ...
Wei Ting-Chi
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The acquisition of German relative clauses: A case study [PDF]
, 2008 This paper investigates the development of relative clauses in the speech of one German-speaking child aged 2;0 to 5;0. The earliest relative clauses we found in the data occur in topicalization constructions that are only a little different from simple ...
Diessel, Holger +2 more
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English rationale since and a reassessment of the typology of adverbial clauses
, 2023 This chapter examines the syntactic and semantic properties of English causal adverbial clauses, starting from the fact that the conjunctions since and as can both introduce either a temporal clause or a rationale clause.
Fleczoreck, Constanzeeditor +3 more
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On causal "af-því-að"-clauses in Icelandic with a brief comparison to German verb final "weil"-clauses [PDF]
, 2020 The main aim of this paper is to examine adverbial causal "af-því-að"-clauses in modern Icelandic with a brief comparison to verb final causal "weil"-clauses in German.
Jędrzejowski, Łukasz +1 more
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Expression of cause, evidence, justify and motivation rhetorical relations by causal hypotactic clauses in Brazilian Portuguese=Expressão das relações retóricas de causa, evidência, justificativa e motivação por meio de orações hipotáticas adverbiais causais no português brasileiro [PDF]
Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2012 This paper aims at investigating the expression of cause, evidence, justify and motivation rhetorical relations by means of causal hypotactic clauses in formal oral discourse (university lectures and interviews with academic researchers) in Brazilian ...
Juliano Desiderato Antonio
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Linguistic Insights into Eurolect of Institutional Documents Based on the System of Logico-Semantic Relations [PDF]
Language, Culture, Politics, 2022 The present article draws primarily on a text-based approach while aiming attention at researching one genre of EU legal language the judgement in its English language version by employing quantitative and qualitative research methods and serves as a ...
Vladislav Hrežo
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Development of Clause Chaining in Korean
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Korean is a language with the verb at the end of a clause/sentence. In chaining several clauses [each consisting of a subject and a verb] in a sentence, a conjunction (e.g., -ko “and then,” -ese “because, and so”) is suffixed to the verb of a non-final ...
Soonja Choi
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The causal clauses with the initial position of the predicate [PDF]
, 2018 The paper discusses causal clauses in contemporary German, positioned after the main clause, which lack a conjunction combining it with that clause.
Wiktorowicz, Józef, Józef Wiktorowicz
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