Thursday 18 July 2013

Enhancing Conjunction: Causal-Conditional

Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 546, 547):
In many types of discourse the relation of cause figures very prominently as a cohesive agent. Some cause expressions are general, others relate more specifically to result, reason or purpose. … Conditionals subdivide into (i) positive, (ii) negative and (iii) concessive.