Abstract: The dataset supports the research article "Salience-simplification strategy to markedness of causal subordinators: The case of “because” and “since” in argumentative essays". In total, the dataset marks features of 976 causal adverbial subordinations retrieved from student argumentative essays.Data points were extracted from three corpora. Specifically, all essays in NESSIE (Native English Speakers’ Similarly or Identically-prompted Essays, created by Xu Jiajin, 781 essays; 291,911 tokens) and argumentative essays in LOCNESS (the Louv...
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