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Non-prototypical Clefts in French
This chapter is in the book Non-prototypical Clefts in French
© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgments VII
  3. Contents IX
  4. General introduction 1
  5. Part I: Delimitation of il y a clefts
  6. 1. Criteria for clefthood in previous studies 21
  7. 2. Corpora and extraction 48
  8. 3. Application of criteria to the corpus data 58
  9. Part II: Distribution, morphosyntactic and semantic properties
  10. 4. Il y a clefts: two semantic types (eventive vs. specificational) 95
  11. 5. Il n’y a que clefts 104
  12. Part III: Functions of il y a clefts
  13. 6. The function of avoiding “bad” preverbal subjects 115
  14. 7. The information structure of il y a clefts 140
  15. 8. Information structure: c’est clefts vs. il y a clefts 186
  16. 9. Other pragmatic functions of il y a clefts 199
  17. Part IV: Italian c’è clefts (vs. French il y a clefts)
  18. 10. Italian c’è clefts (vs. French il y a clefts) 219
  19. Part V: Il y a clefts: compositionality and status as a construction
  20. 11. The compositionality of il y a clefts 263
  21. 12. No evidence (yet) for il y a clefts as a construction 277
  22. General conclusion 294
  23. Appendix 309
  24. Bibliography 331
  25. Index 355
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110586435-201

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgments VII
  3. Contents IX
  4. General introduction 1
  5. Part I: Delimitation of il y a clefts
  6. 1. Criteria for clefthood in previous studies 21
  7. 2. Corpora and extraction 48
  8. 3. Application of criteria to the corpus data 58
  9. Part II: Distribution, morphosyntactic and semantic properties
  10. 4. Il y a clefts: two semantic types (eventive vs. specificational) 95
  11. 5. Il n’y a que clefts 104
  12. Part III: Functions of il y a clefts
  13. 6. The function of avoiding “bad” preverbal subjects 115
  14. 7. The information structure of il y a clefts 140
  15. 8. Information structure: c’est clefts vs. il y a clefts 186
  16. 9. Other pragmatic functions of il y a clefts 199
  17. Part IV: Italian c’è clefts (vs. French il y a clefts)
  18. 10. Italian c’è clefts (vs. French il y a clefts) 219
  19. Part V: Il y a clefts: compositionality and status as a construction
  20. 11. The compositionality of il y a clefts 263
  21. 12. No evidence (yet) for il y a clefts as a construction 277
  22. General conclusion 294
  23. Appendix 309
  24. Bibliography 331
  25. Index 355
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