The English Cleft Construction as a Focus Phrase

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Foreword and acknowledgements v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Morphological Phenomena and their Boundaries
6. Between Morphology and Syntax 11
7. Compounding 31
8. The Effect of Noun Incorporation on Argument Structure 49
9. Lexical-Functional Morphology and the Structure of the Lexicon 73
10. Somali as a Polysynthetic Language 97
11. Dutch Verbal Prefixes 121
12. The Irrealis in the Polish Language 137
13. II. Morpho-Syntax and Pragmatics
14. Morphological and Syntactical Complexity in French Interrogative Predicates 159
15. Integrating Pragmatics into the Grammar 175
16. Subject, Nominative Case, Agreement and Focus 195
17. The English Cleft Construction as a Focus Phrase 217
18. Agreement, Pronominalization and Word Order in Pragmatically-Oriented Languages 231
19. III. Morpho-Syntax and Semantics
20. Thematic-Role Assignment and Aspect in Italian Pronominal Verbs 253
21. Syntactic Optionality and Lexical Semantics 271
22. Labile Orders and Grammatical Functions 291
23. General Index 307