Subjectivity in Causal Connectives: An empirical study of language in use

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 247-273

  Maat, Henk Pander ^a   Sanders, Ted ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

categorization; causality; coherence; coherence relations; connectives; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924869087     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2002.003     Document Type: Article

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