The English it-Cleft : : A Constructional Account and a Diachronic Investigation / / Amanda Patten.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ,
79 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction and background
- Chapter 2. A model of language structure and language change
- Chapter 3. Specificational copular constructions
- Chapter 4. It-clefts as specificational copular sentences
- Chapter 5. Other varieties of it-cleft
- Chapter 6. The it-cleft and earlier periods of English
- Chapter 7. The it-cleft’s development over time
- Chapter 8. The it-cleft and constructional change
- Chapter 9. Conclusions
- Corpora and data sources
- References
- Index