| 书目名称 | Specificational and Presentational There-Clefts | | 副标题 | Redefining the Field | | 编辑 | Kristin Davidse,Ngum Meyuhnsi Njende,Gerard O‘Grad | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Challenges the received view of clefts as conveying information structure only.Develops propositional semantics with close cognitive-functional argumentation.Offers the first systematic study of ther | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book proposes a radically new account of clefts in English. Since the 1960s, functional as well as formal linguists have generally restricted clefts to constructions with an identifying matrix (it-clefts) and have claimed that they only code information structure. Clefts are assumed to unpack a simple proposition into a focus – presupposition structure. In this book, the authors reject these theoretical-descriptive assumptions, arguing instead that clefts form a field comprising it-clefts, there-clefts and ‘have’-clefts. They show that, like any other construction, clefts compositionally code propositional semantics, onto which a great variety of prosodically coded focus patterns may be mapped. The authors fundamentally challenge the existing approach by entering the debate with an in-depth account of the neglected specificational and presentational there-clefts, offering the first systematic data-based study of their grammatical and prosodic features. While the study is restricted to English, its findings have significant cross-linguistic relevance. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Functional, Cognitive and Formal Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | Specificational Clefts; Presentational Clefts; Prosody; Cognitive-Functional; Grammar; Formal Linguistics | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32270-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-32270-9 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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