Semantic Roles of Reason Clauses Introduced by the Central Conjunctions BECAUSE, SINCE, AS and FOR

Abstract

The study classifies the central reason clauses and shows the close relationship between the semantic role of a reason clause and its syntactic function.

Keywords

• Semantic
• Roles
• Reason
• Clauses
• Introduced
• by
• Central
• Conjunctions
• BECAUSE
• SINCE
• AS
• FOR