Screen LibraryFrequency, forms and functions of cleft constructions in romance and germanic : contrastive, corpus-based studies /
The volume describes the frequency, the forms and the functions of different cleft construction types across two language families: the Romance languages (with discussion of Italian, French and Spanish data) and the Germanic languages (with focus on English, German, Swiss German and Danish).
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs [tilsm];
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| Summary: |
The volume describes the frequency, the forms and the functions of different cleft construction types across two language families: the Romance languages (with discussion of Italian, French and Spanish data) and the Germanic languages (with focus on English, German, Swiss German and Danish). |
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1 online resource (vi, 420 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110361872 |
| Index Number: | P287 |
| CLC: | H04 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Cleft constructions in a contrastive perspective / Form and frequency of Italian Cleft constructions in a corpus of electronic news / Cleft sentences. Italian-English in contrast / Pseudo-cleft sentences. Italian-French in contrast / Pseudo-cleft sentences. Italian-Spanish in contrast / Cleft sentences. Italian-Danish in contrast / Cleft sentences. A translation perspective on Italian and French / Frequency, form and function of Cleft constructions in the Swiss SMS corpus / Inferential cleft constructions in translation / Motivating w(h)-Clefts in English and German: A hypothesis-driven parallel corpus study / Subject index. |