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Causative (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Romance languages --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Causatif (Linguistique) --- Syntagme verbal --- Langues romanes --- Syntaxe --- Verb phrase --- Verb phrase --- Syntax --- Syntagme verbal

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The Dutch, German and French languages display a variety of regularly used connectives all of which introduce causes, arguments or reasons, such as Dutch omdat, want and aangezien, German weil, denn and da , and French parce que, car and puisque. Why should languages have different connectives to express the notion of backward causality? The central argument developed in this book is that different connectives express different degrees of subjectivity. In a series of corpus analyses it is shown that the degree of subjectivity of the main participant involved in the causal relation strongly predicts the occurrence of one or another connective. Hence, language users have at their disposal connectives of varying degrees of subjectivity. In an analysis of judiciary sentences, it is revealed that speakers are actually sensitive of this semantic distinction, and sometimes even exploit it for their communicative purposes: in order to conceal their subjective involvement, judges prefer objective over subjective connectives. This volume makes a contribution to the study of language in use, by applying empirical methods to authentic language data. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with discourse coherence, perspective and subjectivity, corpus linguistics and cross-linguistic analyses.

French language --- English language --- Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- German language --- Causaliteit (Taalwetenschap) --- Causality (Linguistics) --- Causalité (Linguistique) --- Causatiefvormen (Taalwetenschap) --- Causatieve constructies (Taalwetenschap) --- Causatieven (Taalwetenschap) --- Causatif (Linguistique) --- Causative (Linguistics) --- Causative constructions (Linguistics) --- Causatives (Linguistics) --- Oorzakelijkheid (Taalwetenschap) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Connectives. --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Connectives --- Causatif (linguistique) --- Grammaire comparée --- Allemand (langue) --- Français (langue) --- Néerlandais (langue) --- Sémantique --- Syntaxe --- Conjonctions (linguistique) --- Connecteurs --- Connecteurs (linguistique) --- Connecteurs. --- Causitive (Linguistics) --- Connecteurs (Linguistique) --- Connectives (Linguistics) --- Sentence connectors --- Function words --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Connectives.

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This volume brings together 18 typological studies of causative and related constructions (transitivity, voice, other expressions of cause) by 19 scholars from North America, Western Europe, and Russia. The inspirations for the volume is the pioneering work on causative constructions by the Leningrad Typology Group; several of the contributors have close connections to the charter members of that group, others have appreciated this work from a distance. The volume as a whole is based on the concept of causative constructions as embracing both morphology and syntax, with an important semantic c

Causative (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Transitivity --- Causaliteit (Taalwetenschap) --- Causality (Linguistics) --- Causalité (Linguistique) --- Causatiefvormen (Taalwetenschap) --- Causatieve constructies (Taalwetenschap) --- Causatieven (Taalwetenschap) --- Causatif (Linguistique) --- Causative constructions (Linguistics) --- Causatives (Linguistics) --- Oorzakelijkheid (Taalwetenschap) --- Grammar --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Causal relations (Linguistics) --- Transitivity. --- Causative constructions --- Syntax --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Transitivity

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This paper is intended as an contrastive study of present narrative in French and in Japanese within the framework of Mental Space Theory. In French the so called "historical present" is a metaphorical use of present tense intending to convey past events as if it were now present before the speaker's eye. But in Japanese the present tense is used to describe the state of past situations without any stylistic effects. The difference comes from the different tense systems of the two languages. In French all events must be indicated from the speaker's position, but Japanese tense indicate only the relation between the event and the v-point spaces. This may account for the use of the present tense in Japanese.

French language --- Japanese language --- Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Syntaxe --- Verbe (Linguistique) --- Français (Langue) --- Japonais (Langue) --- Syntax. --- Verb. --- Grammar, comparative --- Japanese --- French --- Grammaire comparée --- Japonais --- Français --- Japanese. --- French. --- Français (Langue) --- Grammaire comparée --- Français --- Grammaire de construction --- Japonais (langue) --- Anglais (langue) --- Français (langue) --- Italien (langue) --- Phrase verbale --- Causatif (linguistique) --- Sujet et prédicat (linguistique) --- Voix (linguistique) --- Syntaxe. --- Phrase verbale. --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Verb --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Koguryo language --- Grammar, Comparative --- Verb phrase --- Verbals --- Reflexives --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Sujet et prédicat (linguistique) --- Français (langue)