This study investigates 2–5-year-old Mandarin-speaking children's interpretation of the disjunction word huozhe ('or') in two positions in ruguo ('if )-conditional statements, i.e., in the antecedent ...

In our six-part discussion of the various ways of showing the six basic logical relationships, we focused on the two major classes of connectives that perform that function: the conjunctions and the ...

Language has various mechanisms to show relationships among and between ideas. At the level of discourse, for example, a writer communicates the relative importance of individual ideas by expressing ...

The ability to express causes, reasons and justifications is essential for language use. Causality appears in all kinds of texts/discourse and it can be marked for example by causal connectives and ...

In each item below, the sentence contains a highlighted connective (preposition or conjunction) expressing a time relationship, followed by a different connective in parentheses. In the blank box ...