The Pseudo-Cleft Construction in English

F. R. Higgins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

408 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-90031-8 (ISBN)

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This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 22nd 1973. The ostensible central topic of this essay is a construction which is generally known as the "pseudo-cleft" construction. This essay aims to provide an overall picture of the construction, and show why another treatment of it is necessary. This book will be of interest to those pursuing the topic of copular sentences.

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Introductory Note; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Footnotes for Chapter 1; 2. The Pseudo-Cleft Transformation; Footnotes to Chapter 2; 3. Ambiguity, Connectedness, and the Extraction; Footnotes to Chapter 3; 4. Nominalizations, the Transformational Analysis, and Syntactic Connectedness; Footnotes to Chapter 4; Remarks to Chapters 2 and 4; 5. Copular Sentences and Ambiguity; Footnotes to Chapter 5; 6: Some Special Properties of Specificational Pseudo-Cleft Sentences; Footnotes to Chapter 6; 7. Epilogue; Appendix; References; Additional References

Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: The English Language
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	725 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
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ISBN-10	1-138-90031-1 / 1138900311
ISBN-13	978-1-138-90031-8 / 9781138900318
Zustand	Neuware