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Some notes on central causal clauses in Venetian

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2021
AbstractThe goal of this paper is to provide novel evidence in favor of an integration of Haegeman’s (2002) taxonomy of adverbial clause subordination by discussing some data from C-introduced causal constructs in Venetian, the Italo-Romance dialect spoken in the city of Venice.
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Modal particles in causal clauses

2014
It is well-known that modal particles are not only licensed in root clauses, but also in a proper subset of embedded clauses. However, most existing accounts are primarily concerned with syntactic licensing conditions of modal particles in embedded clauses, while their semantic aspects remain relatively unexplored.
Mathias Schenner, Frank Sode
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Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses

2023
This 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, 1988
Explicit 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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Point of view on causal clauses

2019
Abstract 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:
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Like subject verbs and causal clauses in English

Journal of Linguistics, 1974
Perlmutter 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

2023
Abstract 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?

2011
This 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 ...
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Causal and Concessive Clauses: Formal and Semantic Relations

2000
Ekkehard Konig, Peter Siemund
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Chapter 8. on the Syntax of Causal Clauses in Mandarin Chinese

Studies in Language Companion Series, 2023
Víctor Junnan Pan
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