16.369, Books: Syntax/Text/Corpus Ling, English: Kaltenböck

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Subject: 16.369, Books: Syntax/Text/Corpus Ling, English: Kaltenböck

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Date: 04-Feb-2005
From: Elisabeth Farago < e.farago at braumueller.at >
Subject: It-extraposition and Non-extraposition in English: Kaltenböck 

	
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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:27:09
From: Elisabeth Farago < e.farago at braumueller.at >
Subject: It-extraposition and Non-extraposition in English: Kaltenböck 
 



Title: It-extraposition and Non-extraposition in English 
Subtitle: A study of syntax in spoken and written texts 
Series Title: Austrian Studies in English, Vol 90  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Wilhelm Braumüller
	   http://www.braumueller.at
	
Author: Gunther Kaltenböck
Editor: Holger Klein
Editor: Manfred Markus
Editor: Herbert Schendl

Paperback: ISBN: 3700314612 Pages: 326 Price: Europe EURO 31.90


Abstract:

As classic examples of formal syntactic analysis,it-extraposition and
non-extraposition have received considerable attention in the
transformational literature. This book offers a different perspective.
While including a detailed formal analysis which provides extensive
quantitative data, its main concern is that of a functional description of
the extraposition paradigm. Based on a large-scale corpus of
naturally-occurring instances of it-extraposition and non-extraposition,
Kaltenböck's study provides an in-depth analysis of their respective
communicative functions in spoken and written texts. In doing so it takes a
close look at the question of choice within this syntactic paradigm: Why
does a speaker or writer choose one constructional variant rather than the
other? What are the factors that influence this choice? Taking into account
the use and distribution of (non-)extraposition in a wide range of
different text types, the study identifies a number of specific
communicative properties for each variant, amply illustrated with examples
from the corpus. 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (ENG)


Written In: English  (ENG)
	
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