Abstract
‘Concessive clauses’ is the term traditionally used for those adverbial clauses that – together with the relevant main clause – assert two facts against the background of a general incompatibility between such situations. Concessive clauses cannot be focused against the background of the relevant complex sentence and generally exhibit properties of paratactic structures. The historical sources and the development of the relevant connectives reveal important aspects of their meaning, one of which is a particular opposition to sentences with adverbial clauses of causality. The concessive relation between two clauses can relate to different conceptual domains and different types of concessive clauses can be distinguished on the basis of that criterion.
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