Scaling causal relations and connectives in terms of speaker involvement

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 211-245

  Maat, Henk Pander ^a   Degand, Liesbeth ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

categorization; causality; coherence relations; connectives; speaker involvement; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026036490     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2002.002     Document Type: Article

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