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Subject(s)

• Grammar, Comparative and general—Conjunctions [Browse]
• Japanese language—Conjunctions [Browse]
• Causation [Browse]
• Reasoning [Browse]

Series

• Constructional approaches to language ; v. 25. [More in this series]
• Constructional approaches to language, 1573-594X ; volume 25 [More in this series]

Summary note

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 processes related to and different from each other? How do we construe and encode them? How is because different from other conjunctions with similar meanings?0To account for these and related empirical questions, this book presents an integrated analysis in accordance with the original principles of Construction Grammar. In particular, the book shows that the analysis proposed is compatible with our general knowledge about causation and reasoning and that it is valid for English and Japanese. The proposed analysis is also comprehensively applicable to a variety of related phenomena, ranging from the just because X doesn't mean Y construction to the innovative and less known because X construction.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 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.

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ISBN

• 9789027202468
• 902720246X (hardcover : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2018053678

OCLC

1066030729

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