From Ambiguity to Deceptiveness: the Case of Hybrid since- Subordinates in English
When since is used as a subordinator,it can introduce either a temporal adverbial clause or a causal one. My purpose in this paper is to study cases in which such a polysemy at the level of the subordinator results in the production of subordinates whose meaning proves to be ambiguous between the ca...
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Main Author: | Bénédicte GUILLAUME |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2012-03-01
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Series: | E-REA |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/2396 |
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