Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights

Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgments
1 Outline of the volume • Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Constanze Fleczoreck
Part I. Setting the scene
	2 Adverbial clauses and their variation: The case of causal clauses in German • Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Constanze Fleczoreck
Part II. Synchronic variation
	3 Types of German causal clauses and their syntactic-semantic layers • Werner Frey
	4 Pragmatic subordination: Causal clauses with verb first position in German • Karin Pittner
	5 English rationale since and a reassessment of the typology of adverbial clauses • Manuela Schönenberger and Liliane Haegeman
	6 Expressing non-volitional causality in English • Jet Hoek and Merel C. J. Scholman
	7 Layers of subordinate clauses: A view from causal af-því-að-clauses in Icelandic • Ásgrímur Angantýsson and Łukasz Jędrzejowski
	8 On the syntax of causal clauses in Mandarin Chinese • Victor Junnan Pan and Bin Zhu
	9 Three ReasonPs: A view from free adjuncts • Yoshio Endo
Part III. Diachrony
	10 On the divergent developments of two German causal subjunctions: Syntactic reanalysis and the evolution of causal meaning • Ira Eberhardt and Katrin Axel-Tober
	11 Factors for the integration of causal clauses in the history of German • Augustin Speyer and Sophia Voigtmann
Language index
Subject index