Causation and Reasoning Constructions

What is it about?

Both causal relations and reasoning processes may be expressed with one and the same connective word in some languages, e.g., "because" in English and "kara" in Japanese. 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.

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