Studies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface

This paper deals with three different connectives ( betchi’ibo, bwe’ituk, po(r)ke ) in Yaqui, which are used to introduce a clause that provides the cause/reason for which the situation denoted in the associated clause is carried out. The goal of this paper is to describe the morphosyntactic diversity present in Yaqui cause/reason adverbial clauses and to explain this diversity considering the evolutionary paths that have originated the three different cause/reason markers in Yaqui. These three