First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of ’cleft’ and ’pseudo-cleft’ constructions in contemporary English. The book argues that these properties cannot be ignored in any attempt to provide an adequate grammatical description of the constructions. Furthermore, they provide a source of explanations for the patterns of stylistic variation displayed by clefts and pseudo-clefts. The book reports findings from a corpus-based study of clefts and pseudo-...
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Språk Engelska ● Formatera PDF ● Sidor 250 ● ISBN 9781317421375 ● Utgivare Taylor and Francis ● Publicerad 2015 ● Nedladdningsbara 3 gånger ● Valuta EUR ● ID 4408566 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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