Clefts in contrast
A contrastive study of it clefts and wh clefts in English and Swedish texts and translations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3987979 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mats Johansson (0000-0002-6645-9047, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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.2001.023 |
| OpenAlex | W2002852810 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 23 |
This paper presents corpus-elicited contrastive data relevant to the interand intralanguage study of cleft constructions. It is shown that even in closely related languages like English and Swedish, the frequency and distribution of different types of cleft constructions vary greatly. Previous approaches to the study of clefts in English have attempted to derive distributional differences between types of clefts from their syntactic, semantic, or informational properties, or from processing constraints. However, these analyses do not easily carry over to the contrastive data presented here. In particular, attempts to account for the distribution of different types cleft in English in terms of independent factors cannot account for the correspondences found in translated texts. The aims of this paper are (a) to present a methodology for establishing differences between languages based on the study of authentic texts, (b) to show that closely related languages like English and Swedish d
Applied linguistics · Contrast (vision) · Contrastive analysis · Contrastive linguistics · Linguistics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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All-cleft constructions in the London-Lund Corpora of spoken English
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Information Structure and Sentence Form
Presupposition and Linguistic Context
Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication
The Syntax and Semantics of Cleft Constructions
Meaning and Grammar
The Function and Interpretation of Reverse Wh-Clefts in Spoken Discourse
Notes on transitivity and theme in English
The linguistic realization of information packaging
The taxonomy and interpretation of clefts and pseudo-clefts
The pragmatics of it-clefts and WH-clefts
Syntactic constraints on discourse structure
The linguistic realization of information packaging
Presuppositions as nonassertions
A Comparison of Wh-Clefts and it-Clefts in Discourse
| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2023 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |