Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: This paper presents the results of corpus research on the distribution of different functional-pragmatic types of it -clefts and c'est- clefts in English and French adverbial clauses. We distinguish between narrowly contrastive clefts , broadly contrastive clefts (or new information focus clefts ) and non-contrastive clefts . We present the results of corpus research showing that, whereas the three types occur in asserted (or peripheral ) adverbial clauses (typically causals), only narrowly contrastive clefts occur in non-asserted (or central ) adverbial clauses (typically temporals). The distribution of the three functional-pragmatic types of clefts is explained on the basis of the interaction between information structure, epistemic modality and assertion.
Source: Linguistics
Authors: Karen Lahousse, Marijke Borremans
Institution: KU Leuven
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2525936516