Specificational and Presentational There-Clefts : Redefining the Field of Clefts EPUB
by Kristin Davidse, Ngum Meyuhnsi Njende, Gerard O'Grady
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This book proposes a radically new account of clefts in English.
Since the 1960s, functional as well as formal linguists have generally restricted clefts to constructions with an identifying matrix (it-clefts) and have claimed that they only code information structure.
Clefts are assumed to unpack a simple proposition into a focus - presupposition structure.
In this book, the authors reject these theoretical-descriptive assumptions, arguing instead that clefts form a field comprising it-clefts, there-clefts and 'have'-clefts.
They show that, like any other construction, clefts compositionally code propositional semantics, onto which a great variety of prosodically coded focus patterns may be mapped.
The authors fundamentally challenge the existing approach by entering the debate with an in-depth account of the neglected specificational and presentational there-clefts, offering the first systematic data-based study of their grammatical and prosodic features.
While the study is restricted to English, its findings have significant cross-linguistic relevance.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Functional, Cognitive and Formal Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and usage-based study of grammar and prosody.
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- Publisher:Springer International Publishing
- Publication Date:31/07/2023
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- ISBN:9783031322709
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing
- Publication Date:31/07/2023
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- ISBN:9783031322709