Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgmentsVII
Chapter 1.Outline of the volume1
Part I.Setting the scene
Chapter 2.Adverbial clauses and their variation: The case of causal clauses in German15
Part II.Synchronic variation
Chapter 3.Types of German causal clauses and their syntactic-semantic layers51
Chapter 4.Pragmatic subordination: Causal clauses with verb first position in German101
Chapter 5.English rationale since and a reassessment of the typology of adverbial clauses129
Chapter 6.Expressing non-volitional causality in English167
Chapter 7.Layers of subordinate clauses: A view from causal af-því-að-clauses in Icelandic184
Chapter 8.On the syntax of causal clauses in Mandarin Chinese221
Chapter 9.Three ReasonPs: A view from free adjuncts250
Part III.Diachrony
Chapter 10.On the divergent developments of two German causal subjunctions: Syntactic reanalysis and the evolution of causal meaning269
Chapter 11.Factors for the integration of causal clauses in the history of German311
Index347
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