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- Title
The distribution of functional-pragmatic types of clefts in adverbial clauses.
- Authors
Borremans, Marijke; Lahousse, Karen
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
PRAGMATICS; ENGLISH language sentences; FRENCH language; SENTENCES (Grammar); ADVERBIALS (Grammar); CONTRASTIVE linguistics; SYNTAX (Grammar)
- Publication
Linguistics, 2014, Vol 52, Issue 3, p793
- ISSN
0024-3949
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ling-2014-0009