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Date: 24-Nov-2023
From: Katrin Stein [katrin.stein at degruyter.com]
Subject: It-Clefts: Bonan, Ledgeway (eds.) (2023)


Title: It-Clefts
Subtitle: Empirical and Theoretical Surveys and Advances
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
                https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110734140/html

editor: Caterina Bonan
editor: Adam Ledgeway
Abstract:

Clefts are intricate objects which, starting with Jespersen (1937),
have motivated much work in descriptive and formal linguistics.
Nonetheless, almost a century later their exact internal structure and
status are still widely debated, therefore a multidisciplinary volume
on this theoretically complex structure across different languages of
the world is greatly needed.

The articles featured in this volume follow an in-depth Introduction
written by the editors, in which we offer a survey of the
state-of-the-art on clefts by way of a strong contextualisation to the
volume, including a number of robust empirical observations on the
morphosyntactic and interpretational properties of these structures in
numerous standard and non-standard Romance varieties, as well as a
critical presentation of the contributions included in the volume.

Among other things, the ten selected articles propose new insights
into the widely-reported interpretational asymmetry between subject
and object clefts, the features involved in their derivation, the ways
in which the low and high peripheries are variously exploited in the
derivation, the morphosyntactic and interpretational differences
between clefts and their non-cleft counterparts, the role and formal
properties of the copula, the notion of sub-extraction of features, a
reconsideration of the very notion of focus via clefting, and much
more.

The volume, written by renown experts, offers an in-depth overview of
the structure of it-clefts, taking into account different and
complementary fields of the study of linguistics (cartography,
quantitative methods, experimental investigations, nanosyntax,
typology and dialectology) and robust empirical data from numerous
languages including Romance varieties, Hungarian, Mandarin Chinese,
and two Spanish- and French-lexifier creoles.

Our belief is that the synchrony of clefts will only be appropriately
understood once diachronic, typological, historical, experimental and
dialectological aspects are all brought together. We offer through
this volume a first attempt at providing such a variegated picture of
the cross-linguistic morphosyntax of it-clefts.

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Written In: Aari (aiz)



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