ON A CERTAIN NOMINAL USE OF BECAUSE-CLAUSES: JUST BECAUSE BECAUSE-CLAUSES CAN SUBSTITUTE FOR THAT-CLAUSES DOES NOT MEAN THAT THIS IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE

Evidentiality of Discourse Items and Because-Clauses

ASYMMETRY There exists a cross-linguistic asymmetry in availability of discourse items among adjunct clauses between because-clauses on one hand, and temporal clauses and if -clauses on the other (see examples (1) for English obviously , (2) for German ja and (3) for Japanese wa; see Hooper and Thompson 1973, Tenny 2002, Sawada and Larson 2004 among others for the same type of asymmetry with ot...

Because clauses and negative polarity licensing

In this paper, I investigate the interaction of clause-modifying adjuncts, such as because clauses, with negation and the licensing of negative polarity items. I show how an account in which because clauses are adjuncts which can be basegenerated adjoined to either IP or VP explains the ambiguity of examples containing because clauses and negation, and how, in conjunction with the roofing theor...

Knowledge, Abilities, and ‘because’-Clauses. A Critical Appraisal of Virtue-Theoretic Analyses of Knowledge

Virtue-theoretic or “aretaic” theories analyse knowledge in terms of intellectual abilities, virtues, faculties etc. possessed by the epistemic subject (rather than the other way around).1 Recent theories of this variety are persuasively advertised as marking a distinct advance in our quest to understanding what knowledge amounts to. In particular, Greco (2010, 2009) and Sosa (2009, 2007) make ...

Constructional Effects of Just Because ... Doesn’t Mean ..

We will argue that this construction combines semantic and syntactic quirks that necessitate a constructional analysis. Further, we will show that specifying the pragmatic properties of the construction (and in particular the presuppositions that introduces) allows for a particularly elegant account of the construction’s distribution. This, in turn, provides further support for the sign-based v...

Constant Connectivity: Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should