The Correspondence of Resultive Connectors in English and Swedish

Causality plays a fundamental role in human thought and communication (see e.g. Couper-Kuhlen and Kortmann 2000). As a result, expressions of causal relations are an important and common feature in most languages, in spoken as well as written discourse. Broadly speaking, a causal relation can be described as a relationship between a ‘cause’ and an ‘effect’. When the relation is obvious or inferable from the context, it does not have to be overtly expressed: