Five levels can be set up in clause linkage on semantico-pragmatic grounds. This book examines the use of clause linkage markers ("CLMs") for causals, conditionals and concessives in terms of these five levels, employing a framework that was proposed by Mie Tsunoda on the basis of Japanese data. It provides rich data on seventeen languages (including one dialect of Japanese) from North America, Central America, Oceania, Asia, Africa and Europe, and it shows that different CLMs -- even CLMs of the same semantic area, e.g. causals -- exhibit different distributions in terms of the five...