In:Causation and Reasoning Constructions
Masaru Kanetani
[Constructional Approaches to Language 25] 2019
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 25 March 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.25.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1.Introduction
1.1Causation, reasoning, and construction grammar
1.2Organization
Chapter 2.Previous studies: From gestalt to construction
2.1Introduction
2.2Subordinate clauses as ground
2.3Clause positions and boundedness
2.4Domains of use
2.5Propositional vs. modality subordinate-clauses
2.6Subjectivity of causal relations
2.7Constructional approaches
2.8Constructions and their networks
2.8.1Constructions in construction grammar
2.8.2Constructional networks: Inheritance links
Chapter 3.Constructions of causation and reasoning
3.1Introduction
3.2Causal relations and reasoning processes
3.3
causal construction
3.4
reasoning constructions
3.4.1
reasoning
because
construction
3.4.2
reasoning
since
/
for
constructions
3.4.2.1Similarities
3.4.2.2Dissimilarity
3.5Status of the conjunctions
3.6Form-Meaning mismatches and coercion
3.7Further issues
3.7.1
Since as a reasoning subordinator
3.7.2Nominalization of because- and since-clauses
3.7.3On clefting
3.8Relations among constructions
Chapter 4.Focalizations of because- and since-clauses
4.1Introduction
4.2Against information-structural accounts
4.3
causal construction vs. reasoning construction
4.4Two types of focusing adverbs: Exclusives and particularizers
4.5Analysis
4.6Summary
Chapter 5.
causal construction and reasoning construction in Japanese
5.1Introduction: Cross-linguistic validity
5.2
Because constructions in English
5.3
Kara constructions in Japanese
5.4Comparison
Chapter 6.Constructions of metalinguistic reasons
6.1Introduction
6.2Facts
6.3On clefting
6.4On performative because-clauses
6.4.1Earlier analyses
6.4.2Alternative analysis
6.5Interim summary
6.6Functional restriction on E-because
construction
6.7Periphrastic metalinguistic reason sentences
6.8Summary
Chapter 7.Analogy in construction grammar: The case of just because of X doesn’t mean Y
7.1Introduction
7.2Matsuyama (2001): *JBo-X DM-Y
7.3Hirose (1999)
7.3.1Inheritance relations
7.3.2Problem
7.4Revised inheritance model
7.5The JBo-X DM-Y construction as an analogical construction
7.6Instability of the JBo-X DM-Y construction
7.7Summary
Chapter 8.Innovative use of because
8.1Introduction
8.2Grammar of the new usage
8.3Inheritance relations
8.3.1Causal because-clauses as instances of because X
8.3.2
Because X as a proper subpart of causal because-clauses
8.4Reconstruction of the message as the hearer’s business
8.5The x-element as the speaker’s thought-expression
8.5.1Interjections
8.5.2Nouns and adjectives
8.5.3Agreement words
8.5.4Reduced clauses
8.6The subject
because
X construction
8.7Toward constructionalization
8.7.1Constructionalization and constructional changes
8.7.2Meaning pole revisited
8.7.3Step-by-step changes
8.8Summary
Chapter 9.Conclusion
References
Constructions index
Subject index
