text_combined: sum versus ince 6 1043 would like thank following persons much judgements comments various hints concerning query marie egan duncan macgregor richard ingham james kirchner kevin lemoine david powers karen ward yael ziv especially karen stanley took poll claims among colleagues big thankyou mail received following picture emerges including people interviewed k stanley 7 agree distinction 5 agree less informants suggest distinctions conjunctions one ince formal view also presented dictionaries grammars another formal ince suitable informal conversation writing latter judgement seems conformity prescriptivist view according ince causal conjunction used want note identified 209 13 causal sinceclauses among 1576 causal sinceclauses machine readable british english lob corpus written texts 1961 sinceclauses found category called learned scientific writing another informant example sentence 1 essentially synonymous either conjunction impression speaker 1 using feels john admission noteworthy important narrative would ince used direction assume goes another judgement according stronger explicit exceptional found similar view literature interpreted consequence differentiation entailment basis rule norm intrinsically less noteworthy less exceptional real causation people pointed relevance position causal clause tendency rule norm interpretation considered accordance causal clause ince preceding main matrix clause however one informant feels comfortable since clauses preceding clauses following main clause impression somehow conformity statistical situation mentioned lob corpus 9 becauseclauses preposed whereas 41 sinceclauses 43 asclauses preposed one informant pointed constraints may affect acceptability ince causal conjunction ince seems much limited application tense aspect constraint clauses consistent temporal meaning also otherwise sounds forced stilted nt really like sentence 1 ince reversing clauses makes acceptable changing strange conversely changing makes ince version even less acceptable probably last point quotation caused fact replacement makes sentence grammatically acceptable temporal interpretation sinceclause conclude empirical outcome query differentiation tenable various reasons hope develop convincingly doctoral dissertation submitted soon think perhaps people agree claims refrain simply stating agree course would make query statistically valid would suggest plausibility nonempirical reasons carsten breul email carsten breul rz ruhruni bochum de