(DOWNLOAD) "Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English" by Peter C. Collins # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Cleft and Pseudo-Cleft Constructions in English
- Author : Peter C. Collins
- Release Date : January 03, 2015
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 9792 KB
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First published in 1991, this book examines the communicative properties of ‘cleft’ and ‘pseudo-cleft’ constructions in contemporary English. The book argues that these properties cannot be ignored in any attempt to provide an adequate grammatical description of the constructions. Furthermore, they provide a source of explanations for the patterns of stylistic variation displayed by clefts and pseudo-clefts. The book reports findings from a corpus-based study of clefts and pseudo-clefts in modern British English.