1. Introduction

Connectives can be defined as utterance-initial words, phrases, and clauses that share the primary function of linking utterances in discourse. Typical English connectives are: the conjunction and, the adverbs then and nevertheless, the prepositional expression on the other hand, and the clause as I mentioned earlier. Thus, what matters is function rather than form, in combination with the position in the utterance.

Connective as a linguistic term was…