Causal Categories in Discourse and Cognition

Author/Contributor(s):	Sanders, Ted ; Sweetser, Eve
Publisher:	Walter de Gruyter
Date:	12/01/2009
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express causal relations in discourse. The book discusses parameters of categorization that shape the use of causal connectives and auxiliary verbs across languages like English, Dutch and Polish. Convergence of linguistic, corpus-linguistic and psycholinguistic methodologies appears crucial in determining cognitive categories of causality.