ABSTRACT
Through all the chapters so far the cognitive implications of linguistic forms and linguistic processes have been stressed, sometimes more prominently, sometimes less so. In Chapter 6 the link was made explicit through the exploration of the development of the linguistic process of conjunction and its simultaneous cognitive effects or causes. In this chapter an abstract concept-causality-is the focus, and the attempt is made to show the linguistic forms which may be being used by the child to code the different causal models which the writer may wish to express.
