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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2012-03-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/2396
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