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Spanish language --- Grammar --- Espagnol (Langue) --- Causative --- Causatif --- -Castilian language --- Romance languages --- Causative. --- -Causative --- Castilian language

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French language --- Grammar --- Français (Langue) --- Causative --- Causatif --- 804.0-56 --- #KVHA:Taalkunde; Frans --- #KVHA:Causaliteit; Frans --- Frans: syntaxis; semantiek --- 804.0-56 Frans: syntaxis; semantiek --- Français (Langue)

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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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German language --- Causative (Linguistics) --- Allemand (Langue) --- Causatif (Linguistique) --- Verb --- Semantics --- Syntax --- Verbe --- Sémantique --- Syntaxe --- -German language --- -Causative (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Causal relations (Linguistics) --- Ashkenazic German language --- Hochdeutsch --- Judaeo-German language (German) --- Judendeutsch language --- Judeo-German language (German) --- Jüdisch-Deutsch language --- Jüdischdeutsch language --- Germanic languages --- Causative constructions --- Sémantique --- German language - Verb --- German language - Semantics --- German language - Syntax