23.5353, Books: The English it-Cleft: Patten
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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:02:19
From: Linda Steglich [linda.steglich at degruyter.com]
Subject: The English it-Cleft: Patten
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Title: The English it-Cleft
Subtitle: A Constructional Account and a Diachronic Investigation
Series Title: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 79
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/181286?format=G
Author: Amanda Patten
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110279528 Pages: 269 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110277807 Pages: 269 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Abstract:
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.
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Syntax
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Written In: English (eng)
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