Kausalität als linguistische Kategorie

In this purely linguistic study, the attempt is made to establish causality as an integral linguistic category. Proceeding from a conception based on linguistic action theory, the linguistic means available (in German) for expressing causal connections in texts (da, denn, weil, deshalb, -halber etc.) are listed and exhaustively described with reference to the specific parameters they are limited by. The main theoretical emphasis is on questions of case grammar, the treatment of symptom relations (inverted presentation of cause-effect relations) and the relation between causality and temporality (i.e. the temporal-causal fallacy post hoc, ergo propter hoc).