Clefts are intricate objects which, starting with Jespersen (1937), have motivated much work in descriptive and formal linguistics. Nonetheless, almost a centur

This book examines the structure and function of the English it-cleft configuration from within the framework of construction grammar. It defends a straightforw

Studies on Copular Sentences, Clefts and Pseudo-Clefts.

Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from English, German,

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, Technical University of Braunschweig (Englisc