Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English

ISBN-13: 9781138918399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 246 str.

Peter C. Collins

Opis

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."

Spis treści

List of tables and figures;  List of abbreviations and symbols;  Acknowledgements;  1. Approaches to the study of cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions  2. The database  3. Defining the class  4. Formal properties  5. Communicative meanings  6. Communicative meanings in the corpus  7. Clefts, pseudo-clefts and register variation  8. Conclusion;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Collins, Peter