It-Clefts : : Empirical and Theoretical Surveys and Advances / / ed. by Caterina Bonan, Adam Ledgeway.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Belletti, Adriana,; Bertollo, Sabrina,; Bocci, Giuliano,; Bonan, Caterina,; Bourgoin, Charlotte,; Cardinaletti, Anna,; Davidse, Kristin,; Jourdain, Morgane,; Lahousse, Karen,; Ledgeway, Adam,; Marsella, Mara,; McLellan, Alina,; Merlo, Paola,; Samo, Giuseppe,; Tang, Wenli,; Tramutoli, Laura,
• HerausgeberIn: Bonan, Caterina,; Ledgeway, Adam,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 362
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 264 p.)

Clefts are intricate objects which, starting with Jespersen (1937), have motivated much work in descriptive and formal linguistics. Nonetheless, almost a century later their exact internal structure and status are still widely debated, therefore a multidisciplinary volume on this theoretically compl...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• It-clefts: State-of-the-art, and some empirical challenges
• 1 Cleft wh-questions as biclausal structures
• 2 What is it that requires or constrains clefts? (Dis)Favouring factors for clefting in Germanic and Romance
• 3 Subject versus object clefts: A fresh perspective on a robust asymmetry
• 4 Making the case for distinguishing information structure from specification in English it-clefts
• 5 The emergence and early development of c’est ‘it is’ clefts in French L1
• 6 Distributed computational models of intervention effects: A study on cleft structures in French
• 7 It-cleft constructions in Réunion Creole
• 8 (It-)clefts in Palenquero Creole and the specificational copula
• 9 A cartographic approach to Chinese V de O clefts
• Index