ON THE DERIVATION OF CLEFT AND PSEUDO-CLEFT CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH: A MINIMALIST ACCOUNT Cover Image

ON THE DERIVATION OF CLEFT AND PSEUDO-CLEFT CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH: A MINIMALIST ACCOUNT
ON THE DERIVATION OF CLEFT AND PSEUDO-CLEFT CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH: A MINIMALIST ACCOUNT

Author(s): Sabina Halupka-Rešetar
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: cleft construction; pseudo-cleft construction; reverse pseudo-cleft construction; minimalism; information structure

Summary/Abstract: The paper gives an overview of existing generative approaches to the derivation of cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions in English and attempts to offer a simple, minimalist account of the way in which these constructions are generated, with focus on the possibility of reversing the order of the wh-clause and the counterweight in specificational, but not predicational pseudo-clefts.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 263-275
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English
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