Micro- and macro-variation of causal clauses : synchronic and diachronic insights / edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski, University of Cologne ; Constanze Fleczoreck, Leibniz University Hannover.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Jędrzejowski, Łukasz, editor.

Fleczoreck, Constanze, editor.

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Conference Name:

International Conference on Historical Linguistics (24th : 2019 : Canberra, Australia)

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 231.

Studies in language companion series (SLCS) ; volume 231

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Causal relations (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Causal relations (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 353 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]

Contents:

Intro

Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Preface and acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Outline of the volume

Abbreviations

References

Part I. Setting the scene

Chapter 2. Adverbial clauses and their variation: The case of causal clauses in German

1. Introduction

2. Synchronic variation of causal clauses

2.1 Semantics

2.2 Syntax

3. Diachronic variation of causal clauses

3.1 Semantics

3.2 Syntax

4. Concluding remarks

Acknowledgements

Funding

References

Part II. Synchronic variation

Chapter 3. Types of German causal clauses and their syntactic-semantic layers

2. Causal clauses and the distinction between CACs, PACs and NonICs

3. The layers of a speech act and their syntactic representations

4. The licensing of causal clauses as PACs and as NonICs

5. Consequences of the layer assignments

6. Summary

Chapter 4. Pragmatic subordination: Causal clauses with verb first position in German

2. Characteristics of V1-causal clauses

3. Missing constituent characteristics

4. No correlates possible

5. Focusing not possible

6. The contribution of doch

7. Verb first position

8. The interaction between verb first position and doch

9. Obligatory postposition

10. Pragmatic subordination

11. Diachronic development

some hypotheses and tendencies

12. Conclusions

Primary sources

Secondary references

Chapter 5. English rationale since and a reassessment of the typology of adverbial clauses

1. Introduction: Aim and scope of the chapter

2. A comparison

2.1 Scope effects: Temporal, modal, negative, and interrogative operators

2.2 Information structure: Focus, it-clefts, new information

2.3 VP ellipsis and VP anaphora

2.4 Argumental status/complement of P

2.5 Resumption

2.6 Embedding

2.7 Echoic adverbial clauses

2.8 Summary

3. Re-assessing the typology and the analysis

3.1 Rationale clauses are syntactically integrated

3.2 An analysis: (Rationale) since2/as2-clauses and JudgementP

3.3 A third type of adverbial clause: Speech-event modifiers

3.4 Some speculations on non-integration

4. Summary

Acknowledgements

Chapter 6. Expressing non-volitional causality in English

2. Method: Parallel corpus study

2.1 Corpus data

2.2 Annotating the English source text equivalents of doordat

2.3 Annotation procedure

2.4 Data analysis

3. Results

3.1 Quantitative analysis: Because as source text equivalent of doordat, omdat, and want

3.2 Qualitative analysis: Source text equivalents of doordat

4. Discussion & conclusion

Notes:

"The collection of chapters included in this volume goes back to a selection of contributions to the workshop entitled On the Diachrony of Causal Clauses convened and organized by the volume editors, Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Constanze Fleczoreck, at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 24) at the Australian National University, Canberra, July 1-5, 2019"--CIP galley.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 16, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Micro- and macro-variation of causal clauses

ISBN:

9789027254474

9027254478

Publisher Number:

40031638788

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