Sales Rank: 123925

Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Pages: 230
Number Of Items: 1

Dewey Decimal Number: 425
ASIN: B000FBFCXY

Publication Date: April 16, 2007
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BI PCleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English/B/I is a corpus-based investigation of cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions in contemporary English. It is the first study of such constructions to fully explore the view--now widespread among linguists--that any attempt to satisfactorily explain their structural and functional characteristics must refer to concepts directly related to their use in communication. Peter Collins states that it is necessary to invoke such discourse-relevant notions as information, topic and theme. By using a standard written corpus and a standard spoken corpus of British English, the author is able to analyze systematically the discourse-functions of clefts and pseudo-clefts, provide information on the frequency of these constructions in different genres, and prevent the 'tidying-up' found in examples devised by the linguist. BICleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English/B/I is an excellent study of the interrelations of grammar, pragmatics, and discourse, and a persuasive illustration of the importance of corpus-based approaches to linguistic description./P P /P P /P

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