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This study focuses on the comparisons between the Chinese reason connectives yinwei and youyu from the viewpoint of corpus linguistics. By means of three independent statistical methods (collocation analysis, correspondence analysis, and mixed-effects logistic regression analysis), the analyses were performed within the data of two balanced and comparative corpora, the UCLA2 (original Chinese text) and the ZCTC(English-translated Chinese text). The results mainly revealed that the alternative choice between yinwei and youyu is determined by a number of language-internal factors including the length of related sentences, the position of reason subjects and reason clauses, and the usage with result connectives. It was also illustrated that youyu is preferred in objective domains as well as in the original Chinese text.