Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Italian Cleft Constructions in a Contrastive Perspective
5. Cleft constructions in a contrastive perspective 9
6. Form and frequency of Italian Cleft constructions in a corpus of electronic news 49
7. Cleft sentences. Italian-English in contrast 101
8. Pseudo-cleft sentences. Italian-French in contrast 139
9. Pseudo-cleft sentences. Italian-Spanish in contrast 177
10. Cleft sentences. Italian-Danish in contrast 217
11. Cleft sentences. A translation perspective on Italian and French 277
12. Part II. Romance and Germanic Cleft Constructions in Contrast
13. Frequency, form and function of Cleft constructions in the Swiss SMS corpus 325
14. Inferential cleft constructions in translation 345
15. Motivating w(h)-Clefts in English and German: A hypothesis-driven parallel corpus study 377
16. Subject index 415