Causative verbs in scientific texts: attempt of typology
Keywords:
causality, cause, causal relationship, linguistics, science.
Abstract
Both a discursive modality and a strategy, causality allows the understanding, perception and justification of events. As a discursive strategy, popular scientific discourse circulates through linguistic signs perceptible in varying degrees. Causality is perceived explicitly, as manifested in the lexical level. Further, to validate a causal relationship in a given situation it is frequently necessary to recover (more or less) explicit terms that appear on the morphosyntactic level. Other implicit ways of linguistically expressing cause—or ―unmarked cause‖—are likewise observed.Downloads
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2016-05-12
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El Khamissy R. (2016). Causative verbs in scientific texts: attempt of typology. Thélème. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses, 31(1), 55-79. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_THEL.2016.v31.n1.50863
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