Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface and acknowledgments vii
4. Chapter 1. Outline of the volume 1
5. Part I. Setting the scene
6. Chapter 2. Adverbial clauses and their variation 15
7. Part II. Synchronic variation
8. Chapter 3. Types of German causal clauses and their syntactic-semantic layers 51
9. Chapter 4. Pragmatic subordination 101
10. Chapter 5. English rationale since and a reassessment of the typology of adverbial clauses 129
11. Chapter 6. Expressing non-volitional causality in English 167
12. Chapter 7. Layers of subordinate clauses 184
13. Chapter 8. On the syntax of causal clauses in Mandarin Chinese 221
14. Chapter 9. Three ReasonPs 250
15. Part III. Diachrony
16. Chapter 10. On the divergent developments of two German causal subjunctions 269
17. Chapter 11. Factors for the integration of causal clauses in the history of German 311
18. Language index 347
19. Subject index 348