Specificational and presentational there-clefts : redefining the field of clefts
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Specificational and presentational there-clefts : redefining the field of clefts
Palgrave Macmillan, c2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
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.
目次
1 Introduction2 Natural grammar3 Compilation and prosodic analysis of data4 Existential there versus demonstrative there 5 Paradigms of relative markers6 Different antecedent - relative clause relations 7 Structural assemblies and semantics of the four existential constructions with relative clause8 Determiners of existent NPs in the four four existential constructions with relative clause9 Prosodic patterns in the four existential constructions with relative clause10 Conclusion
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