TY - BOOK ID - 127303423 TI - Micro - and macro-variation of causal clauses : synchronic and diachronic insights AU - Jędrzejowski, Łukasz AU - Fleczoreck, Constanze PY - 2023 SN - 9789027213419 9027213410 9027254478 9789027254474 PB - Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Causal relations (Linguistics) KW - Clauses. KW - Clauses UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127303423 AB - "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"-- ER -