Preliminary communication

https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.48.1.11

Expressing Causality with c’est que

Clara Destais ; Université Rennes 2
Christine Evain ; Université Rennes 2
Marie-Françoise Bourvon ; Université Rennes 2

Abstract

The analysis of the c’est que form in a literary corpus of 22 novels written in French by Spanish-speaking authors show that the form expresses causality. “C’est que” is used as a connector in the French construction si … c’est que. But c’est que is also used on its own, as a discourse marker, to indicate a causal relationship between what has been stated previously and what follows.

Keywords

linguistics; causality; discourse markers; c’est que; French

Hrčak ID:

281037

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/281037

Publication date:

29.7.2022.

Article data in other languages: french croatian

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