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Autore |
Patten Amanda L |
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Titolo |
The English it-cleft : a constructional account and a diachronic investigation / / by Amanda L. Patten |
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Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Collana |
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Topics in English linguistics, , 1434-3452 ; ; 79 |
Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; ; 79 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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It (The English word) |
English language - Word order |
English language - Syntax |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-265) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction and background -- Chapter 2. A model of language structure and language change -- Chapter 3. Specificational copular constructions -- Chapter 4. It-clefts as specificational copular sentences -- Chapter 5. Other varieties of it-cleft -- Chapter 6. The it-cleft and earlier periods of English -- Chapter 7. The it-cleft's development over time -- Chapter 8. The it-cleft and constructional change -- Chapter 9. Conclusions -- Corpora and data sources -- References -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book examines the structure and function of the English it-cleft configuration from within the framework of construction grammar. It defends a straightforward extraposition-from-NP analysis (on which the cleft clause is a restrictive relative, modifying the initial it) and claims that all types of it-cleft involve nominal predication. Support for this analysis comes from three main areas: (a) the central role of definiteness in the creation of specificational meaning, (b) the existence and makeup of predicational (and proverbial) it-clefts, and (c) the early, historical it-cleft data. In addition, the book contains a sizeable diachronic component, drawing data from the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English and from the International Corpus of English - Great |
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