Constructional Effects of Just Because
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We will argue that this construction combines semantic and syntactic quirks that necessitate a constructional analysis. Further, we will show that specifying the pragmatic properties of the construction (and in particular the presuppositions that introduces) allows for a particularly elegant account of the construction’s distribution. This, in turn, provides further support for the sign-based view of grammar in which syntactic constraints interact on an equal footing with semantic and pragmatic information.
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