The Pit narrdow and totadow subcorpora were compiled for a study of the causal connectives "aangezien", "doordat", "omdat" and "want" in Dutch, German and French narratives and news. The narrdow subcorpus consists of cases from 22 Dutch novels published between 1990 and 1996. The totadow subcorpus consists of cases from a Dutch newspaper (de Volkskrant) from 1995. The DiscAn corpus is a collection of subcorpora of Dutch language that have been annotated at the level of discourse. These subcorpora form a set of Dutch corpus analyses of coherence relations and discourse connectives that have been compiled and annotated by researchers at several universities in The Netherlands and Belgium. In the DiscAn project, funded by CLARIN-NL, this set of corpus analyses has been standardized (both in terms of raw data – the texts – and analyses) and opened up for further scientific research.