The distribution of functional-pragmatic types of clefts in adverbial clauses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10295484 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Lahousse (0000-0003-4023-1439, KU Leuven, corresponding author), Marijke Borremans |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2014-0009 |
| OpenAlex | W2525936516 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 29 |
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. © 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Adverbial · Assertion · Contrastive analysis · Focus (optics) · Information Structure · Linguistics · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |