The distribution of functional-pragmatic types of clefts in adverbial clauses
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Karen Lahousse
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Marijke Borremans
Abstract
This paper presents the results of corpus research on the distribution of different functional-pragmatic types of it-clefts and c'est-clefts in English and French adverbial clauses. We distinguish between narrowly contrastive clefts, broadly contrastive clefts (or new information focus clefts) and non-contrastive clefts. We present the results of corpus research showing that, whereas the three types occur in asserted (or peripheral) adverbial clauses (typically causals), only narrowly contrastive clefts occur in non-asserted (or central) adverbial clauses (typically temporals). The distribution of the three functional-pragmatic types of clefts is explained on the basis of the interaction between information structure, epistemic modality and assertion.
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- Verb-preposition constructions in Hong Kong English: A cognitive semantic accountn
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Verb-preposition constructions in Hong Kong English: A cognitive semantic accountn
- Conceptually-driven analogy in the grammaticalization of Spanish binominal quantifiers
- Southern Min m in discourse
- Knowing is not always knowing: The Korean cwul al- construction in mental-spaces theory
- Parallels between cross-linguistic and language-internal variation in Hebrew possessive constructions
- The distribution of functional-pragmatic types of clefts in adverbial clauses
- Book Review
- Book Review
- Book Review
