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This chapter aims to explore the co-occurrence patterns of but in CLEC and BAWE-E in order to shed light on the type of logico-semantic relations it encodes. Given the multivalent status of but, the lexico-grammatical environment of the conjunction plays a significant role in distinguishing between different senses of the conjunction. As stressed by Halliday and Matthiessen (2004), lexis and grammar are two poles of a single cline. The choice of lexical items and the choice of grammatical categories are interconnected (ibid.).
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Zhang, Y. (2021). Co-occurrence Patterns of but in CLEC and BAWE-E. In: Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in EFL Writing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7837-3_5
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