Cleft And Pseudo Cleft Constructions In English

Author : Peter C. Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317421361
Total Pages : 429 pages
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Download or read book Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English written by Peter C. Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of ‘cleft’ and ‘pseudo-cleft’ constructions in contemporary English. The book argues that these properties cannot be ignored in any attempt to provide an adequate grammatical description of the constructions. Furthermore, they provide a source of explanations for the patterns of stylistic variation displayed by clefts and pseudo-clefts. The book reports findings from a corpus-based study of clefts and pseudo-clefts in modern British English.

Author : F. R. Higgins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317436814
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pseudo-Cleft Construction in English written by F. R. Higgins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 22nd 1973. The ostensible central topic of this essay is a construction which is generally known as the "pseudo-cleft" construction. This essay aims to provide an overall picture of the construction, and show why another treatment of it is necessary. This book will be of interest to those pursuing the topic of copular sentences.

Author : F. R. Higgins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317436806
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pseudo-Cleft Construction in English written by F. R. Higgins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 22nd 1973. The ostensible central topic of this essay is a construction which is generally known as the "pseudo-cleft" construction. This essay aims to provide an overall picture of the construction, and show why another treatment of it is necessary. This book will be of interest to those pursuing the topic of copular sentences.

Author : Peter C. Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138918412
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English written by Peter C. Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of 'cleft' and 'pseudo-cleft' constructions in contemporary English. The book argues that these properties cannot be ignored in any attempt to provide an adequate grammatical description of the constructions. Furthermore, they provide a source of explanations for the patterns of stylistic variation displayed by clefts and pseudo-clefts. The book reports findings from a corpus-based study of clefts and pseudo-clefts in modern British English.

Author : Katharina Hartmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027271127
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleft Structures written by Katharina Hartmann and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of clefts is beyond doubt a golden oldie. It has captivated linguists of different disciplines for decades. The fascination arises from the unique syntax of clefts in interaction with their pragmatic and semantic interpretation. Clefts structure sentences according to the information state of the constituents contained in them. They are special as they exhibit a rather uncommon syntactic form to achieve the separation of the prominent part, either focal or topical, from the background of the clause. Despite the long-lasting interest in clefts, linguists have not yet come to an agreement on many basic questions. The articles contained in this volume address these issues from new theoretical and empirical perspectives. Based on data from about 50 languages from all over the world, this volume presents new arguments for the proper derivation of clefts, and contributes to the ongoing debate on the information-structural impact of cleft structures. Theoretically, it combines modern syntactic theorizing with investigations at the interface between grammar and information-structure.

Author : Gabriela Bara
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640554256
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparison Between It-clefts and WH-Clefts: Similarities and Differences written by Gabriela Bara and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, Technical University of Braunschweig (Englisches Seminar), course: Introduction to Information Structure, language: English, abstract: From language to language, there are different alternatives in which a speaker can structure information. Information structure deals with the highlighting of pieces of information in sentences. Even though there are a variety of ways in which the same basic informational content can be conveyed, the preference for a particular way reveals how the speaker's semantic representation is transposed into syntactical data. Moreover, the speaker's choice for structuring information into a particular linguistic form shows the coherent way in which utterances are connected in sequences, revealing thus the importance of discourse. There are several syntactic devices that are able to encode the pragmatic information of a preferred alternative. One type of such devices used to mark information structure is cleft constructions. There are two major types of clefts: it-clefts and WH-clefts, also called pseudo-clefts. There has been claimed in the literature for a long time that cleft constructions are interchangeable. Clefts present a series of syntactic similarities, but they behave differently in discourse. The purpose of this paper is to prove that it-clefts and WH-clefts are not interchangeable. In doing so, data will be analyzed by comparing clefts as far as form, structure, and discourse functions are concerned, and eventually, in the light of given and known information, I will show the essential differences between them. Although the grammatical forms are in direct relation and determine to some degree the information structure in a cleft, apart from the syntactical level, of significant importance is the analysis of cleft constructions as integrated components of a discourse. One should take into account the natural flow of la

Author : Peter C. Collins
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Total Pages : 796 pages
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Download or read book The Cleft and Pseudo-cleft Constructions in English Spoken and Written Discourse written by Peter C. Collins and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Roger Higgins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 259 pages
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Download or read book The Pseudo-cleft Construction in English written by Francis Roger Higgins and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 361 pages
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Download or read book The Pseudo-cleft Construction in English written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna-Maria De Cesare
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110361876
Total Pages : 426 pages
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Download or read book Frequency, Forms and Functions of Cleft Constructions in Romance and Germanic written by Anna-Maria De Cesare and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume describes the frequency, the forms and the functions of different cleft construction types across two language families: the Romance languages (with discussion of Italian, French and Spanish data) and the Germanic languages (with focus on English, German, Swiss German and Danish).