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Le statut linguistique de la cause

Year: 1990

Type: article

Abstract: The Linguistic status of causality. Causality, as a full-blown notion, is not a grammatical category but a discourse-semantic entity. Discourse occurrences of causality (accounting, inference, deduction, finality, justification...) are filtered, at a more abstract grammatical level, by underlying operations of a wholly different kind which are part of the indefinite-to-definite process, especially that of location-identification whereby discourse entity x is identified as a member of the set of predicators (= U) of some other discourse entity y (i.e. x ∈ U(y)). The paper argues that the postulated grammatical operations can be recaptured through a close scrutiny of a variety of discourse surface traces.

Source: Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines

DOI: 10.3406/ranam.1990.1217

Author: Guy Bourquin

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4386137347

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