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Autore: | Patten Amanda L |
Titolo: | The English it-cleft : a constructional account and a diachronic investigation / / by Amanda L. Patten |
Pubblicazione: | Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (279 p.) |
Disciplina: | 415 |
Soggetto topico: | It (The English word) |
English language - Word order | |
English language - Syntax | |
Soggetto non controllato: | Construction Grammar |
English Linguistics | |
Historical Linguistics | |
It-Cleft | |
Specificational Sentences | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-265) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 Britain. This investigation informs and advances what is an otherwise simple account of the English it-cleft, explaining how and why the configuration has developed an assortment of peculiar, construction-specific properties over time. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The English it-cleft |
ISBN: | 3-11-027952-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808694103321 |
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