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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824572103321

Titolo

Frequency, forms and functions of cleft constructions in Romance and Germanic : contrastive, corpus-based studies / / edited by Anna-Maria De Cesare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-11-036187-6

3-11-039474-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 p.)

Collana

Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; Volume 281

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Clauses

Romance languages - Grammar, Generative

Germanic languages - Grammar, Generative

Romance languages - Syntax

Germanic languages - Syntax

Frequency (Linguistics)

Generative grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / De Cesare, Anna-Maria -- Part I. Italian Cleft Constructions in a Contrastive Perspective -- Cleft constructions in a contrastive perspective / De Cesare, Anna-Maria -- Form and frequency of Italian Cleft constructions in a corpus of electronic news / De Cesare, Anna-Maria / Garassino, Davide / Agar Marco, Rocío / Baranzini, Laura -- Cleft sentences. Italian-English in contrast / Garassino, Davide -- Pseudo-cleft sentences. Italian-French in contrast / Baranzini, Laura -- Pseudo-cleft sentences. Italian-Spanish in contrast / Agar Marco, Rocío -- Cleft sentences. Italian-Danish in contrast / Korzen, Iørn -- Cleft sentences. A translation perspective on Italian and French / Brianti, Giovanna -- Part II. Romance and Germanic Cleft Constructions in Contrast -- Frequency,



form and function of Cleft constructions in the Swiss SMS corpus / Stark, Elisabeth -- Inferential cleft constructions in translation / Atayan, Vahram / Wienen, Ursula -- Motivating w(h)-Clefts in English and German: A hypothesis-driven parallel corpus study / Gast, Volker / Levshina, Natalia -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

The volume describes the frequency, the forms and the functions of different cleft construction types across two language families: the Romance languages (with discussion of Italian, French and Spanish data) and the Germanic languages (with focus on English, German, Swiss German and Danish).