The English it-Cleft: A Constructional Account and a Diachronic Investigation
Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]
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This book examines the structure and function of the English it-cleft configuration from within the framework of construction grammar. It defends a straightforward extraposition-from-NP analysis (on which the cleft clause is a restrictive relative, modifying the initial it) and claims that all types of it-cleft involve nominal predication. Support for this analysis comes from three main areas: (a) the central role of definiteness in the creation of specificational meaning, (b) the existence and makeup of predicational (and proverbial) it-clefts, and (c) the early, historical it-cleft data. In addition, the book contains a sizeable diachronic component, drawing data from the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English and from the International Corpus of English - Great Britain. This investigation informs and advances what is an otherwise simple account of the English it-cleft, explaining how and why the configuration has developed an assortment of peculiar, construction-specific properties over time
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The English it-Cleft: A Constructional Account and a Diachronic Investigation
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Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: | Amanda Patten |
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Patten, Amanda |
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Veröffentlichung: | Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, [2012] |
Medientyp: | Monographie |
Datenträgertyp: | Elektronische Ressource |
Umfang: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
ISBN: | 9783110279528 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110279528 |
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