LEADER 04467nam 22005655 450 001 9910736021803321 005 20230810181819.0 010 $a3-031-32270-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-32270-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30670604 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30670604 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-32270-9 035 $a(CKB)27899948600041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9927899948600041 100 $a20230731d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSpecificational and Presentational There-Clefts $eRedefining the Field of Clefts /$fby Kristin Davidse, Ngum Meyuhnsi Njende, Gerard O'Grady 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (192 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Davidse, Kristin Specificational and Presentational There-Clefts Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031322693 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Natural grammar -- Chapter 3. Compilation and prosodic analysis of data -- Chapter 4: Existential there versus demonstrative there -- Chapter 5: Paradigms of relative markers -- Chapter 6: Different antecedent?relative clause relations -- Chapter 7: Structural assemblies and semantics of the four existential constructions with relative clause -- Chapter 8: Determiners of existent NPs in the four four existential constructions with relative clause -- Chapter 9: Prosodic patterns in the four existential constructions with relative clause -- Chapter 10: Conclusion. . 330 $a"This study does nothing less than redraw the map of clefts. It provides a thought-provoking and stunningly comprehensive new take on a familiar construction, extending its scope in terms of the structures included and by according special attention to its semantics and prosody." -Gunther Kaltenböck, Professor at University of Graz, Austria 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. 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. . 606 $aLinguistics 606 $aPsycholinguistics 606 $aLinguistics$xMethodology 606 $aTheoretical Linguistics / Grammar 606 $aPsycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics 606 $aResearch Methods in Language and Linguistics 615 0$aLinguistics. 615 0$aPsycholinguistics. 615 0$aLinguistics$xMethodology. 615 14$aTheoretical Linguistics / Grammar. 615 24$aPsycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics. 615 24$aResearch Methods in Language and Linguistics. 676 $a428.2 700 $aDavidse$b Kristin$0175945 701 $aNjende$b Ngum Meyuhnsi$01380280 701 $aO'Grady$b Gerard$0910280 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910736021803321 996 $aSpecificational and Presentational There-Clefts$93421560 997 $aUNINA