Degand, Liesbeth
[UCL]
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.
Bibliographic reference |
Degand, Liesbeth. Causal connectives or causal prepositions? Discursive constraints. In: Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 32, no. 6, p. 687-707 (2000) |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/43876 |