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Frequency, Forms and Functions of Cleft Constructions in Romance and Germanic

Contrastive, Corpus-Based Studies
  • Edited by: Anna-Maria De Cesare
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2014
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The volume describes the frequency, the forms and the functions of different cleft construction types across two language families: the Romance languages (with discussion of Italian, French and Spanish data) and the Germanic languages (with focus on English, German, Swiss German and Danish).

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Anna-Maria De Cesare, University of Basel & Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland.

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Part I. Italian Cleft Constructions in a Contrastive Perspective

Towards an operational taxonomy
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A contrastive perspective with French, Spanish, German and English
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Part II. Romance and Germanic Cleft Constructions in Contrast

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French c’est que in political texts
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eBook published on:
November 10, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9783110361872
Hardcover published on:
October 27, 2014
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9783110361070
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