Cleft And Pseudo Cleft Constructions In English
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Cleft And Pseudo Cleft Constructions In English
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Author : Peter C. Collins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-08-27
Cleft And Pseudo Cleft Constructions In English written by Peter C. Collins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Systematic analysis of the discourse-functions of clefts and pseudo-clefts, providing information on the frequency of these constructions in different genres, and preventing the `tidying-up' found in examples devised by the linguist.
The Pseudo Cleft Construction In English
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Author : F. R. Higgins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-26
The Pseudo Cleft Construction In English written by F. R. Higgins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Cleft And Pseudo Cleft Constructions In English
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Author : Peter C. Collins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-02-09
Cleft And Pseudo Cleft Constructions In English written by Peter C. Collins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-09 with categories.
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.
Cleft And Pseudo Cleft Constructions In English
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Author : Peter C. Collins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-03
Cleft And Pseudo Cleft Constructions In English written by Peter C. Collins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
The Pseudo Cleft Construction In English
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Author : F. R. Higgins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-26
The Pseudo Cleft Construction In English written by F. R. Higgins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Clefts And Their Relatives
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Author : Matthew Reeve
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2012
Clefts And Their Relatives written by Matthew Reeve and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Cleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for syntactic theory. This monograph argues that clefts and related constructions cannot be analysed in a straightforwardly compositional manner. Instead, it proposes that the locality conditions on modification (for example by a restrictive relative clause) must be reformulated such that they account for the apparent compositionality of DP-internal modification whilst also permitting 'discontinuous' modification of the type which is independently needed for constructions such as relative clause extraposition. The empirical focus of the book is on clefts in English and Russian, which have a similar interpretation but considerably divergent syntactic structures. The author argues that, despite these syntactic differences, both types of cleft are mapped to their semantic interpretations in the same manner. This monograph will be essential reading for those working on cleft constructions and copular sentences more generally, and will be of interest to those working on the syntax-semantics interface.
The Evolution Of Pragmatic Markers In English
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Author : Laurel J. Brinton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-31
The Evolution Of Pragmatic Markers In English written by Laurel J. Brinton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is a detailed diachronic study of a set of English pragmatic markers, providing insights concerning their syntactic and semantic development.
Frequency Forms And Functions Of Cleft Constructions In Romance And Germanic
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Author : Anna-Maria De Cesare
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-11-10
Frequency Forms And Functions Of Cleft Constructions In Romance And Germanic written by Anna-Maria De Cesare and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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).
Copular Clauses
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Author : Line Mikkelsen
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2005-10-13
Copular Clauses written by Line Mikkelsen and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is concerned with a class of copular clauses known as specificational clauses, and its relation to other kinds of copular structures, predicational and equative clauses in particular. Based on evidence from Danish and English, I argue that specificational clauses involve the same core predication structure as predicational clauses — one which combines a referential and a predicative expression to form a minimal predicational unit — but differ in how the predicational core is realized syntactically. Predicational copular clauses represent the canonical realization, where the referential expression is aligned with the most prominent syntactic position, the subject position. Specificational clauses involve an unusual alignment of the predicative expression with subject position. I suggest that this unusual alignment is grounded in information structure: the alignment of the less referential DP with the subject position serves a discourse connective function by letting material that is relatively familiar in the discourse appear before material that is relatively unfamiliar in the discourse. Equative clauses are argued to be fundamentally different.
Ancient Texts And Modern Readers
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-06-07
Ancient Texts And Modern Readers written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-07 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The chapters of this volume address a variety of topics that pertain to modern readers’ understanding of ancient texts, as well as tools or resources that can facilitate contemporary audiences’ interpretation of these ancient writings and their language. In this regard, they cover subjects related to the fields of ancient Hebrew linguistics and Bible translation. The chapters apply linguistic insights and theories to elucidate elements of ancient texts for modern readers, investigate how ancient texts help modern readers to interpret features in other ancient texts, and suggest ways in which translations can make the language and conceptual worlds of ancient texts more accessible to modern readers. In so doing, they present the results of original research, identify new lines and topics of inquiry, and make novel contributions to modern readers’ understanding of ancient texts. Contributors are Alexander Andrason, Barry L. Bandstra, Reinier de Blois, Lénart J. de Regt, Gideon R. Kotzé, Geoffrey Khan, Christian S. Locatell, Kristopher Lyle, John A. Messarra, Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé, Jacobus A. Naudé, Daniel Rodriguez, Eep Talstra, Jeremy Thompson, Cornelius M. van den Heever, Herrie F. van Rooy, Gerrit J. van Steenbergen, Ernst Wendland, Tamar Zewi.