Sobre formas de ambigüedad de las oraciones escindidas: sintaxis y discurso by María Jesús Fernández Leborans

“…Moreover, this work demonstrates that the be/ser verb of ‘discontinuos’ It-cleft sentences with that is not ambiguous but just one copulative verb.…”
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Diachronic study of information structure in Persian by Marjan Ansari, Bahram Hadian, Vali Rezaei

“…The present study aimed to investigate diachronic changes in the frequency and function of marked syntactic structures, namely passive constructions, preposing, and cleft sentences that manifest information structural elements in Persian. …”
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Uma leitura hallidayiana das sentenças clivadas do português by Rodolfo Ilari, Sanderléia Roberta Longhin

“…<p>Neste trabalho, discutimos os critérios que, segundo Halliday (1966- 1967), explicam as estruturas "identificadoras" e "predicativas" que, juntas, dão conta do universo das <em>cleft sentences</em> do inglês. Mostramos que esses critérios parecem válidos para as cinco formas de sentenças clivadas do português e, além disso, permitem levantar hipóteses para a compreensão dos processos que as originaram.…”
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L’expression de la proéminence à valeur emphatique en anglais par des locuteurs francophones non débutants by Caroline David, Laurence Vincent-Durroux, Cécile Poussard

“…In spoken language, demonstrative wh-clefts are the most frequent among cleft sentences (Biber et al., 1999); we notice that the French speakers conform to the tendency. …”
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Syntactic and Pragmatic Factors in Children’s Comprehension of Cleft Constructions by Aravind, Athulya, Hackl, Martin, Wexler, Kenneth N

“…We show that these difficulties disappear when clefts are presented in felicitous contexts, where children behave adultlike both in their evaluation of the truth of cleft sentences and in their response-time patterns. When the pragmatic requirements on cleft use were not satisfied, children succeeded only on some types of clefts. …”
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Grammatische Komplexität und semantische Transparenz in deutschen und englischen Satzstrukturen by Fischer, Klaus

“…The discussion considers case, syntactic and pragmatic word order, verb prefixes, reflexive pronouns, gender, non-finite clauses and cleft sentences. It is shown that system complexity does not translate one-to-one to text complexity, that grammatical complexity does not necessarily result in semantic transparency and that a number of English structures are semantically more transparent than their German counterparts. …”
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Kein italienisches dabei? by Tiziana Roncoroni

“…The present one confirms the wide range of options to translate dabei: verbal phrases (many with gerundio), very different and more or less lexicalised prepositional phrases in adverbial (only sporadic in conjunctive) function, especially with in and con as head, adverbs (most of them connective adverbs), lexical and syntactic additions, reformulations, (pseudo-)cleft sentences. Moreover, new insights into the correlations between several parameters for analysis have been gained, among them the following ones: dabei in Vorfeld-position is often rendered with marked syntactic constructions mostly conveying concession; dabei in Mittelfeld, on the other hand, seems to favour rendering through prepositional phrases. …”
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Free and depedent small clauses in Brazilian Portuguese Mini-orações livres e dependentes em Português Brasileiro by Mary Aizawa Kato

“…The derivation of free small clauses is parallel to canonical cleft sentences.<br>Este artigo examina o que chamamos de mini-orações livres, que, diferentemente de mini-orações dependentes, exibem algumas propriedades peculiares: (a) é restrita a ocorrer com adjetivos de indivíduo ou de evento, (b) tem que ter o sujeito posposto. …”
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Clefts in context: A QUD-perspective on c’est / il y a utterances in spoken French by Alessia Cassarà, Aria Aria, Lena Karssemberg

“…, when these structures are used as pragmatic strategies to focalize the subject in spoken French. Unlike full cleft sentences, monoclausal c’est and il y a utterances have received less attention in the literature, especially with regard to focus and its realization in spontaneous speech. …”
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