Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English (Theoretical Linguistics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter C Collins
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 230
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Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0415063280
Dewey Decimal Number: 425
EAN: 9780415063289
ASIN: 0415063280
Publication Date: December 13, 1991
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Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English, a corpus-based investigation, 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. 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.
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