Re: Dissertation help

CEP7@aol.com
Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:35:18 -0400 (EDT)

In a message dated 7/13/1997 11:08:26 AM, jwrobie@mindspring.com (Jonathan
Robie) wrote:

<<Interesting - does a cause/effect relationship take different syntactic
forms than a grounds/inference relationship or an equivalence relationship?

Jonathan
>>

It may be that there are certain syntactical relationships that tend toward
one or the other. Aor ind in protasis and fut ind in apodosis will tends
toward cause/effect. Constructions with DUNAMAI + infinitive in the apodosis
tends to be grounds/inference. But most syntactical constructions can go
either way, depending on context, and in many of those cases a distinction is
difficult.

Charles Powell