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The concept of relevance distance between two clauses C and D of S is defined using various metrics based on the properties of paths connecting C to D.
In contrast to the macro-level cohesive causal connections, CACs function between two clauses in a text; in these cases, authors could have chosen to employ causal connectors but did not.
Found in verbal discourse (e.g., Gohl2000; Lydand06) and written discourse (e.g., Blettner1983; FitzgeRosette2009osette2009), asyndetic constructions occur when coordination between two clauses is apparent but no overt coordinating conjunction is present (e.g., and, or, but, so, because) (Muller1991); asyndetic construction are not necessarily causal.
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By eliminating the causal conjunction because, the author makes the causal connection between the two clauses less explicit, although that connection might still be surmised in context.
(Only the smaller VP and V′ are shown in the partial structure (T2).) The complete sequence of transformations is taken to give a deep theoretical explanation of many properties of (B.i) and (B.ii), including such things as what could be substituted for the two NPs, and the fact there is at least rough truth-conditional equivalence between the two clauses.
Relevant to this study, however, CACs occur when two clauses lack explicit causal connectors between them.
These two clauses, the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause, are frequently in tension.
How do the two clauses of the amendment interact?
But the Irish legislation just encompasses two clauses, she says.
In (2) we deal with two clauses that form a clause complex, and only the primary clause is verbal; the next is a reported clause, the relation between the two being hypotactic.
Only two clauses are agentive.
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