Quand la langue cause : paramètres d'une étude linguistique de la causalité

Starting from the fact causality and linguistics are strongly related, this paper tries to understand if the language can help to better understand the notion of cause. Without any a priori definition of causality, we examine the linguistics markers that express causality and we analyse their conditions of use. The linguistic observations actually reveals some properties of the notion of cause but we show that the diversity of causal meaning subtleties cannot get reduced to a traditional typology of causes and that causality is above all a matter of human interpretation.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Source ISSN: 0769-4113
Author Gross, Gaston, Nazarenko, Adeline
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 5, 2026, 14:10 (UTC)
Created May 5, 2026, 14:10 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00098047
Language fr
contributor Laboratoire de linguistique informatique (LLI) ; Université Paris 13 (UP13)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Gross, Gaston
date 2004-05-05T00:00:00
harvest_object_id 81353a2c-a81b-435a-a006-94e640a1279b
harvest_source_id 3374d638-d20b-4672-ba96-a23232d55657
harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
metadata_modified 2024-11-29T00:00:00
set_spec type:ART