30.1469, Books: Causation and Reasoning Constructions: Kanetani

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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:53:08
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Causation and Reasoning Constructions: Kanetani

 


Title: Causation and Reasoning Constructions 
Series Title: Constructional Approaches to Language 25  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.25 


Author: Masaru Kanetani

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262714 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262714 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262714 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027202468 Pages: 196 Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027202468 Pages: 196 Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027202468 Pages: 196 Price: Europe EURO 95.40


Abstract:

Causation and reasoning are different but related types of relationships. Both
causal relations and reasoning processes may be expressed with one and the
same connective word in some languages: English speakers use "because" and
Japanese speakers use "kara". How then are causation and reasoning processes
related to and different from each other? How do we construe and encode them?
How is "because" different from other conjunctions with similar meanings?

To account for these and related empirical questions, this book presents an
integrated analysis in accordance with the original principles of Construction
Grammar. In particular, the book shows that the analysis proposed is
compatible with our general knowledge about causation and reasoning and that
it is valid for English and Japanese. The proposed analysis is also
comprehensively applicable to a variety of related phenomena, ranging from the
"just because" X "doesn’t mean" Y construction to the innovative and less
known "because" X construction.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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