| Title | : | Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Peter Collins |
| Release | : | 2015-07-03 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Language Arts & Disciplines, Books, Professional & Technical, Education, Reference, Foreign Languages, Linguistics, Words & Language |
| Size | : | 6782549 |
| First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of ‘cleft’ and ‘pseudo-cleft’ constructions in contemporary English. The book argues that these properties cannot be ignored in any attempt to provide an adequate grammatical description of the constructions. Furthermore, they provide a source of explanations for the patterns of stylistic variation displayed by clefts and pseudo-clefts. The book reports findings from a corpus-based study of clefts and pseudo-clefts in modern British English. |
