Year: 1990
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper presents an analysis and synthesis of the factors relevant to the decision to use a cleft construc- tion in discourse. The model described, based on a corpus of 587 naturally-occurring cleft constructions in written and spoken discourse, consists of two stages. The first stage concerns the decision to use a cleft construction rather than a non-cleft; the second describes the factors relevant in deciding between three types of cleft:/t-clefts, such as that in example (1), wh-clefts, such as (2), and reverse wh-clefts, such as (3): (1) It was the mango that Martin ate
Author: J. L. Delin
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2060275964