Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse

The current study sets out to investigate naturally produced English causal relations from the point of view of conceptual and linguistic features that contribute to their intended interpretations as Volitional or Non-volitional result. These features include two discourse connectives: as a result and for this reason and the extent of the overlap between the semantic information they encode and the relation type they mark. The paper reports on a mixed-method approach combining a corpus investiga