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Generally the term “causal construction” refers to a causal situation “composed of a relation between two events (the causing event and the caused event) that are viewed by the speaker as causally dependent on each other” (Degand 2000: 688). As there seems to be no accepted non-circular definition of causality, for this study we take the causality as a semantic primitive (following Iordanskaya, Mel'čuk 1996: 164; Wierzbicka 1996: 70-71). Aside a prototypical causal construction which usually has two clauses the causing event may be syntactically represented by a noun phrase (see e.g. Dirven 1995). Liesbeth Degand describes the latter as a prepositional phrase which compacts “the causing event (realized by the nominal group) and the causal relation (realized by the preposition) into one grammatical constituent - the causal adjunct” (Degand 2000: 690). Sergey Say calls it a “nominal causal construction” (Say et al. 2022) Despite a considerable attention paid by scholars to the Tagalog causal constructions and conjunctions, e.g. in Schachter, Otanes (1976), Malicsi (2013), and in Klimenko (2021; 2022) Tagalog nominal causal constructions have not yet received a particular attention. As from the typological perspective reportedly there is also a lack of research on nominal causal constructions based on less studied languages outside of Europe (as pointed out by Say et al. 2022 – NoCaCoDa). So my report is a preliminary attempt to partially fill this gap with the Tagalog data analysis.