French Connectives

Abstract

An overview is given of pioneering work in the field of French connectives. Among the seminal notions and distinctions introduced in descriptive studies of French connectives are (1) the distinction between objective and subjective readings of causal relations; (2) the notion of procedural meaning of connectives; and (3) language‐specific semantic distributions of connectives. The entry closes with discussion of the ongoing LEXCONN project, which aims at providing an exhaustive list of French connectives and an indication of their grammatical category, function(s), and semantic relation(s).

Korean causal markers ‑ese and ‑nikka in clause-initial and final positions in relation to the sequence of Mandarin Chinese yinwei

“…Anne must be tired, CONNECTIVE she left the meeting early. ' (Degand & Zufferey 2016) Degand & Zufferey (2016) point out that parce que in (1) relates real-world events, while car in (2) relates the speaker's own reasoning and conclusion. Similarly, Korean tends to distinguish the usage of causal connectives -ese and -nikka.…”