Estudio comparativo de enlaces interoracionales causales en dos corpus

Abstract

This is a cornparative study of the exp1cit signalling of the causal interesential relation by means of adverbial partícles in two corpora. The study assumes a discourse analysis perspective and focuses en ihe following parameters: Ihe actual signals used. The external or internal character of Ihe intersentential relation involved. ihe initial or non-initíal posítion of the signal in the sentence and its frequency of occurrence. The aim of ihe study is to demonstrate whether the two corpora are significantly different in relation lo those pararneters or not.