Specificational and Presentational There-Clefts | Redefining the Field of Clefts

Kristin Davidse (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 303132269X / ISBN 13: 9783031322693

Editore: Springer, 2023

Specificational and Presentational There-Clefts | Redefining the Field of Clefts | Kristin Davidse (u. a.) | Buch | xiii | Englisch | 2023 | Springer | EAN 9783031322693 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Codice articolo 126784262

Riassunto:

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 usage-based study of grammar and prosody.

Informazioni sull'autore: Kristin Davidse is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at KU Leuven, Belgium. 

Ngum Njende is a PhD candidate in the Linguistics Department at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Gerard O’Grady is a Professor in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK. 

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Titolo: Specificational and Presentational ...
Casa editrice: Springer
Data di pubblicazione: 2023
Legatura: Buch
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