Edited by Irene Vogel
[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16] 2020
► pp. 49–64
French causal puisque-clauses in the light of (not)-at-issueness
This paper examines the discourse status of French causal clauses introduced by puisque ‘since’. Puisque-clauses are associated with two implications: the relation expressed by puisque and the content of their clause. Several diagnostics show that neither implication is at-issue and that the two implications belong to two different types of projective content (cf. Tonhauser et al. 2013). This is due to syntactic and lexical reasons: the relation expressed by puisque is not at-issue because puisque-clauses modify high (evidential and speech act) phrases that are not at-issue; the content of the puisque-clause is not at-issue because puisque is lexically factive, i.e. selects true facts. Puisque thus exemplifies an unrecognized type of double presuppositional trigger.
Article outline
- Introduction
- 1.Not-at-issueness of puisque-clauses
- 1.1Answer to question under discussion
- 1.2Challengeability
- 1.3Non-focusability
- 2.Two types of projective content
- 2.1Projection
- 2.2Strong contextual felicity constraint
- 2.3Obligatory local effect
- 3.Two sources of not-at-issueness
- 3.1Syntactic source (the puisque-implication)
- 3.2Lexical source (the B-implication)
- 4.Conclusion
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References
https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.16.04cha
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