Causal connectives or causal prepositions? Discursive constraints

Degand, Liesbeth
(2000) Journal of Pragmatics — Vol. 32, n° 6, p. 687-707 (2000)

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In this article, we draw a comparison between causal prepositions and causal connectives and present them as alternative realizations of the underlying causal situation. It is our aim to investigate under which constraints a language user tends to select either of both causal alternatives. It appeared from a quantitative corpus analysis that these constraints are primarily pragmatic in nature, since they have to do in the first place with the discourse domain and with the management of given/new information. This is also confirmed by an analysis of the grammatical and lexical constraints on causal prepositions and connectives. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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Degand, L. (2000). Causal connectives or causal prepositions? Discursive constraints. Journal of Pragmatics, 32(6), 687-707. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00066-1 (Original work published 2000)