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Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights
Edited by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Constanze Fleczoreck
[Studies in Language Companion Series 231] 2023
► pp. 250–266

Chapter 9
Three ReasonPs

A view from free adjuncts

| Kanda University of International Studies
In this chapter, I will discuss three types of reason expressions in the framework of the cartography of syntactic structures. After reviewing the previous analyses of two ReasonPs that house reason expressions, it will be shown that there is still another ReasonP that houses reason expressions involving free adjuncts. I will further explore the possibility of splitting up the new type of ReasonP into the central type and the peripheral type by extending Haegeman’s (2012) idea of adverbial clauses.
Keywords: adverbial clause, free adjunct, cartography, ReasonP
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The cartography of syntactic structures
  • 3.Previous studies of ReasonPs
  • 4.ReasonP3: free adjuncts
  • 5.Implications
  • 6.Summary
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 1 March 2023
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