Where do Cleft Sentences Come from
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2895836 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeanette K Gundel, Jeanette Κ Gundel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 543 |
| Publication date | 1977-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/413176 |
| OpenAlex | W2334760390 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 6 |
Most analyses of cleft sentences have assumed that the subject it of these constructions is semantically empty. It is argued here, however, that cleft sentences are reduced forms of right-dislocated pseudo-clefts, where it is a pronominal reference to the topic which appears at the end of the sentence. The fact that this NP is always pronominalized with it is shown to follow from a more general principle which governs pronominalization in ‘identifying’ sentences
Linguistics · Natural language processing · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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Syntax and Semantics of It-Clefts
The Wolof argument-focus constructions as copulaless clefts
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A Corpus-based Study of the Pragmatic and Syntactic Functions of Cleft Constructions in Newspaper Editorials
Construcciones Escindidas en Mazahua (Otomangue)
Interpreting focus
Categories of C’est -Cleft Constructions
Freezing in it-clefts
Construcții (pseudo)scindate în româna veche
(Pseudo)cleft constructions in old Romanian
Prepositional predicates and focus constructions in a functional grammar of english
Systematic mismatches
Syntactic predicates
Negotiating a position within heteroglossic diversity
On the presuppositions of number sentences
A functional approach to two 'focussing' constructions in English and Chinese
The cleft sentence A base-generated perspective
The syntactic structure of English clefts
Cleft sentences in English
Discourse functions of five English sentence types
Pseudocleft constructions in Marshallese wh- questions
Message and emphasis
Premodified reduced IT-clefts
Predicational clefts
The pragmatics of it-clefts and WH-clefts
A framework for the analysis of cleft constructions
Shared knowledge' and topicality
On pragmatic change
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,77 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2026 (49) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |