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ACHIEVING UNEQUIVOCAL EMPHASIS IN ENGLISH BY PSEUDO-CLEFTING ...
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This paper focuses on pseudo-clefting, a syntactic transformation rule (T-rule) frequently used in English to give focal and thematic prominence (cf. Lăcătușu, 2005: 77) to various structural constituents, be them phrases or clauses. As its name suggests, it is related to clefting, another T-rule we elaborated on in our paper “Clefting: A Stereotypical but Resourceful and Handy Transformation of the English Simple Sentence” issued in the Messages, Sages and Ages Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2 / 2019, pp. 31-37. Although the purpose of both these transformations is quite similar semantically speaking (i.e. laying unequivocal emphasis on one constituent or another in a particular sentence), there are also significant differences which are to be found at the level of the syntax of the sentence so transformed, differences detailed on in the present paper. ... : {"references": ["Akmajian, A. 1970a. Aspects of the Grammar of Focus in English. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, M.I.T., cited by Higgins F.R., 1973. Akmajian, A. 1970b. \"On Deriving Cleft Sentences from Pseudo-cleft Sentences\" in Linguistic Inquiry 1. 149-168, cited by Higgins F.R., 1973.*** Cleft Sentences - Adding Emphasis: (https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b2/cleftsentences/3/) Close, R. A. 1979. A Reference Grammar for Students of English. Longman Group Limited. Collins, P. C. 2002. Cleft and Pseudo-cleft Constructions in English (https://epdf.pub/cleft-andpseudo-cleft-constructions-in-english-theoretical-linguistics.html, retrieved on November 20 th 2019). Cornilescu, A.1982. English Syntax, vol. II. Bucure\u0219ti: Tipografia Universit\u0103\u021bii Bucure\u0219ti. Curelariu, V. 2019. \"Clefting: A Stereotypical but Resourceful and Handy Transformation of the English Simple Sentence\". In: Messages, Sages, and Ages, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2019), pp.31-37. Higgins, F.R. 1973. The Pseudo-cleft ...
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clefting; extraposition; pseudo-clefting; Relative Clause; Subject Complement Clause
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URL: https://zenodo.org/record/5336287
https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5336287
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The lexical and grammatical sources of neg-raising inferences
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2020)
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Remarks on prepositional object clauses in Germanic
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In: Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, Vol 44, Iss 1 (2020) (2020)
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La structure [Verbe + démonstratif + complétive] chez Thucydide et Xénophon
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In: Nemo par eloquentia : Mélanges de linguistique ancienne en hommage à Colette Bodelot ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02384153 ; Martin Taillade; Julie Gallego; Fabienne Fatello; Guillaume Gibert. Nemo par eloquentia : Mélanges de linguistique ancienne en hommage à Colette Bodelot, Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, pp.127-142, 2019 (2019)
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