Frequency, Forms and Functions of Cleft Constructions in Romance and Germanic : : Contrastive, Corpus-Based Studies / / 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).
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (420 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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