From the pseudo-cleft to the the-N-is construction in spoken English: the birth of a new paradigm
Traditionally, the pseudo-cleft construction is studied alongside the cleft construction as a focalisation marker and a syntactic restructuring device (Khalifa, 2004; Weinert and Miller, 1996). A study of the pseudo-cleft in spoken English shows that the construction differs significantly from the c...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/4711 |