Category membership and category potential: The case of vague because
I analyse the English causal connector because as used in the so-called because X constructions in terms of its word class membership. I show that three types of because can be distinguished based on syntactic criteria. Depending on the complement of the connector, because can be used as a conjuncti...
Main Author: | Martin Konvička |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
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Series: | Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/7418 |
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