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Frequency, forms and functions of cleft constructions in Romance and Germanic : contrastive, corpus-based studies / edited by Anna-Maria De Cesare.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; Volume 281.
- Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs, 1861-4302 ; Volume 281
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Clauses.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Romance languages--Grammar, Generative.
- Romance languages.
- Germanic languages--Grammar, Generative.
- Germanic languages.
- Romance languages--Syntax.
- Germanic languages--Syntax.
- Frequency (Linguistics).
- Generative grammar.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (426 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter Mouton, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The volume describes the frequency, the forms and the functions of different cleft construction types across two language families: the Romance languages (with discussion of Italian, French and Spanish data) and the Germanic languages (with focus on English, German, Swiss German and Danish).
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction / De Cesare, Anna-Maria
- Part I. Italian Cleft Constructions in a Contrastive Perspective
- Cleft constructions in a contrastive perspective / De Cesare, Anna-Maria
- Form and frequency of Italian Cleft constructions in a corpus of electronic news / De Cesare, Anna-Maria / Garassino, Davide / Agar Marco, Rocío / Baranzini, Laura
- Cleft sentences. Italian-English in contrast / Garassino, Davide
- Pseudo-cleft sentences. Italian-French in contrast / Baranzini, Laura
- Pseudo-cleft sentences. Italian-Spanish in contrast / Agar Marco, Rocío
- Cleft sentences. Italian-Danish in contrast / Korzen, Iørn
- Cleft sentences. A translation perspective on Italian and French / Brianti, Giovanna
- Part II. Romance and Germanic Cleft Constructions in Contrast
- Frequency, form and function of Cleft constructions in the Swiss SMS corpus / Stark, Elisabeth
- Inferential cleft constructions in translation / Atayan, Vahram / Wienen, Ursula
- Motivating w(h)-Clefts in English and German: A hypothesis-driven parallel corpus study / Gast, Volker / Levshina, Natalia
- Subject index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783110361872
- 3110361876
- 9783110394740
- 311039474X
- OCLC:
- 1013957489
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