Frequency, Forms and Functions of Cleft Constructions in Romance and Germanic : : Contrastive, Corpus-Based Studies / / ed. by Anna-Maria De Cesare.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Agar Marco, Rocío,; Atayan, Vahram,; Baranzini, Laura,; Brianti, Giovanna,; De Cesare, Anna-Maria,; Garassino, Davide,; Gast, Volker,; Korzen, Iørn,; Levshina, Natalia,; Stark, Elisabeth,; Wienen, Ursula,
• HerausgeberIn: De Cesare, Anna-Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 281
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; Part I. Italian Cleft Constructions in a Contrastive Perspective --; Cleft constructions in a contrastive perspective --; Form and frequency of Italian Cleft constructions in a corpus of electronic news --; Cleft sentences. Italian-English in contrast --; Pseudo-cleft sentences. Italian-French in contrast --; Pseudo-cleft sentences. Italian-Spanish in contrast --; Cleft sentences. Italian-Danish in contrast --; Cleft sentences. A translation perspective on Italian and French --; Part II. Romance and Germanic Cleft Constructions in Contrast --; Frequency, form and function of Cleft constructions in the Swiss SMS corpus --; Inferential cleft constructions in translation --; Motivating w(h)-Clefts in English and German: A hypothesis-driven parallel corpus study --; Subject index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110361872; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110369526; 9783110370270
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110361872
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Anna-Maria De Cesare.

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).