Cause, Condition, Concession, Contrast
Subtitle: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives (Topics in English Linguistics, No 33) (Topics in English Linguistics)
Contributors: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (Editor); Bernd Kortmann (Editor)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9783110166903
Subjects: Discourse Analysis; Philosophy of language; Syntax; Grammar, Comparative and general; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; English; Language; Grammar; Cognitive grammar; Linguistics; Clauses; Grammar, Comparative and gener
First sentence: This article discusses interrelations between relevance and causality from different angles: first, it is shown that the very notion of causality is subject to a relevance constraint.