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The Functions of Danish Causal Conjunctions
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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Form and function: Optional complementizers reduce causal inferences [PDF]
Glossa, 2017 Many factors are known to influence the inference of the discourse coherence relationship between two sentences. Here, we examine the relationship between two conjoined embedded clauses in sentences like The professor noted that the student teacher did ...
Hannah Rohde, Joseph Tyler, Katy Carlson
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Causal Equations without Ceteris Paribus Clauses
Philosophy of Science, 2010 Some writers have urged that evolutionary theory produces generalizations that hold only ceteris paribus, that is, provided “everything else is equal.” Others have claimed that all laws in the special sciences, or even all laws in science generally, hold only ceteris paribus.
Peter Gildenhuys
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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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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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Clause chaining and the utterance phrase: Syntax–prosody mapping in Matukar Panau
Open Linguistics, 2021 Clause chaining is a form of syntactic dependency holding between a series of clauses, typically expressing temporal or causal relations between events. Prosodic hierarchy theory proposes that syntactic constituents are systematically mapped to prosodic ...
Mansfield John, Barth Danielle
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Probing incremental commitment to causal inferences from relative clauses
, 2022 We plan to conduct a reading study in the Maze on the nature of incremental commitment to causal inferences between predicate-final relative clauses and their matrix ...
John Duff
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weil dies ist ^MEInungsbezogen. Über die verfestigte Verbzweitstellung in meinungs- und gefühlsbezogenen weil-Sätzen im gesprochenen Deutsch [PDF]
Acta Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Ostraviensis. Studia Germanistica, 2021 This paper explores utterances in the form of causal clauses introduced by the conjunction weil in conversational German. The focus of this research is the relationship between the position of the finite verb in the clause and the type of explanation or ...
Dario Marić
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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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Glossa, 2016 In present-day spoken German, subordinate clauses introduced by the connector weil ‘because’ occur with two orders of subject, finite verb, and object(s).
Gerard Kempen, Karin Harbusch
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