Analogy in Construction Grammar : The Case of Just Because of X Doesn't Mean Y

Abstract

That is, these sentences have the meaning of inference denial (i.e., the conclusion that you are going to have lights out in Manhattan is not automatically drawn from the premise that Pete Wilson made a dumb mistake). They differ from each other, however, in their syntactic forms. That is, the subject of sentence (1) is a because of phrase, while that of sentence (2) is a because-clause. 1 I will call a form-meaning pairing like (1) the just because of X doesn’t mean Y (JBo-X DM-Y) construction, and one like (2) the just because X doesn’t mean Y (JB-X DM-Y) construction, respectively. Before starting the analysis, it should be noted that the JBo-X DM-Y construction is considered not perfectly acceptable, while the JB-X DM-Y

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