Micro - and macro-variation of causal clauses synchronic and diachronic insights edited by Lukasz Jedrzejowski, Constanze Fleczoreck

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jędrzejowski, Łukasz.

Fleczoreck, Constanze.

Series:

Studies in Language Companion

Studies in Language Companion vol. 231

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands Philadelphia, Pennsylvania John Benjamins Publishing Company [2023]

Summary:

"This collection presents novel insights into the micro- and macro-variation of causal clauses from a cross-linguistic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic setting the scene, and nine chapters based on data from Dutch, German, English, Icelandic, Chinese, and Japanese. Topics discussed in the individual chapters involve, inter alia, external, internal and linear syntax of adverbial clauses expressing a causal relation, their semantic interpretation and information-structural properties, verb position, volitionality, and the development of particular causal conjunctions. The findings gained here are of synchronic and diachronic nature and offer new theoretical perspectives on how causal dependency relationships are expressed by inherent causal morpho-syntactic patterns. They also provide a deeper comprehension of how sentential modifiers work, emerge and develop in general. This volume is an asset to grammarians, syntacticians, theoretical and historical linguists"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Preface and acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Outline of the volume

Part I. Setting the scene

Chapter 2. Adverbial clauses and their variation

Part II. Synchronic variation

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

Chapter 4. Pragmatic subordination

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

Chapter 6. Expressing non-volitional causality in English

Chapter 7. Layers of subordinate clauses

Chapter 8. On the syntax of causal clauses in Mandarin Chinese

Chapter 9. Three ReasonPs

Part III. Diachrony

Chapter 10. On the divergent developments of two German causal subjunctions

Chapter 11. Factors for the integration of causal clauses in the history of German

Language index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Jędrzejowski, Łukasz Micro- and Macro-Variation of Causal Clauses

ISBN:

9789027254474

9027254478