Buch, Englisch, Band 424, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 705 g
A Corpus Analysis of "il y a" Clefts
Buch, Englisch, Band 424, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 705 g
Reihe: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie
ISBN: 978-3-11-058375-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
This monograph is the first large-scale corpus analysis of French clefts. While most research on clefts focusses on the English ‘prototypical’ it-cleft and its equivalents across languages, this study examines the lesser-known clefts – of both presentational-eventive and specificational type – and provides an in-depth analysis of their syntactic, semantic and discourse-functional properties.
In addition to an extensive literature review and a comparison with Italian clefts and with French clefts, the strength of the study lies in the critical approach it develops to the common definition of clefts. Several commonly used criteria for clefts are applied to the corpus data, revealing that these criteria often lead to ambiguous results. The reasons for this ambiguity are explored, thus leading to a better understanding of what constitutes a cleft. In this sense, the analysis will be of interest to specialists of Romance and non-Romance clefts alike.
Zielgruppe
Scholars (Romance Studies, Linguistics), Institutes / Romanisten, Linguisten, Institute
