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250 Pages
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Routledge
250 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
List of tables and figures
List of abbreviations and symbols
Acknowledgements
1. Approaches to the study of cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions
2. The database
3. Defining the class
4. Formal properties
5. Communicative meanings
6. Communicative meanings in the corpus
7. Clefts, pseudo-clefts and register variation
8. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Collins, Peter
