Causation and reasoning constructions /
"Causation and reasoning are different but related types of relationships. Both causal relations and reasoning processes may be expressed with one and the same connective word in some languages: English speakers use because and Japanese speakers use kara. How then are causation and reasoning pr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2019]
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Colección: | Constructional approaches to language ;
v. 25. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Previous studies: from gestalt to construction
- 3. Constructions of causation and reasoning
- 4. Focalizations of because- and since-clauses
- 5. Causal construction and reasoning construction in Japanese
- 6. Constructions of metalinguistic reasons
- 7. Analogy in construction grammar: the case of just because of x doesn't mean y
- 8. Innovative use of because
- 9. Conclusion
- References.