Specificational and Presentational There-Clefts: Redefining the Field of Clefts - Couverture rigide

Davidse, Kristin; Njende, Ngum Meyuhnsi; O'Grady, Gerard

 
9783031322693: Specificational and Presentational There-Clefts: Redefining the Field of Clefts
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 303132269X ISBN 13 : 9783031322693
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Synopsis

This book proposes a radically new account of clefts in English. Since the 1960s, functional as well as formal linguists have generally restricted clefts to constructions with an identifying matrix (it-clefts) and have claimed that they only code information structure. Clefts are assumed to unpack a simple proposition into a focus - presupposition structure. In this book, the authors reject these theoretical-descriptive assumptions, arguing instead that clefts form a field comprising it-clefts, there-clefts and 'have'-clefts. They show that, like any other construction, clefts compositionally code propositional semantics, onto which a great variety of prosodically coded focus patterns may be mapped. The authors fundamentally challenge the existing approach by entering the debate with an in-depth account of the neglected specificational and presentational there-clefts, offering the first systematic data-based study of their grammatical and prosodic features. While the study is restricted to English, its findings have significant cross-linguistic relevance. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Functional, Cognitive and Formal Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and usage-based study of grammar and prosody.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kristin Davidse is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at KU Leuven, Belgium.
Ngum Njende is a PhD candidate in the Linguistics Department at KU Leuven, Belgium.
Gerard O'Grady is a Professor in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK.

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
303132269X
ISBN 13 
9783031322693
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
200
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9783031322716: Specificational and Presentational There-Clefts: Redefining the Field of Clefts

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ISBN 10 :  3031322711 ISBN 13 :  9783031322716
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
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