Cleft constructions in a contrastive perspective

Cesare, Anna-Maria De

doi:10.1515/9783110361872.9

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“… 1 There is an extensive literature on clefts, which we will not introduce here in detail. See De Cesare (2014); Lahousse and Borremans (2014); Lahousse and Lamiroy (2015) for an overview. Clefts are considered as dispositifs by Blanche-Benveniste et al (1984); Rouget and Salze (1985); Blanche-Benveniste and Jeanjean (1987); Scappini (2006; 2013); Sabio and Benzitoun (2013).…”

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Definiteil y a-clefts in spoken French

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Lahousse

2016

French Language Studies

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This article discussesil y a-clefts in spoken French. In the linguistic literature, only one function ofil y a-clefts is widely acknowledged, namely presenting a new event in the discourse. By studying corpus examples in their wider context, we found however that many occurrences do not easily fit in the properties described in the literature. We make a distinction between presentationalil y a-clefts, which can be event-presenting or entity-presenting, and specificational enumerativeil y a-clefts, which give an example of a class that was implicitly or explicitly evoked in the context.

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Definiteil y a-clefts in spoken French

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Lahousse

2016

French Language Studies

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Pseudo-clefts in Italian talk-in-interaction and in interaction-as-represented

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Stefani

2022

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French adverbial cleft sentences

Cesare

2018

BJL

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The goal of this contribution is to deepen our knowledge of French cleft sentences through the study of a special category of clefts called adverbial clefts. The issues that we will address concern their form, discourse frequency and boundaries with resembling structures. In order to shed light on these issues, we start by defining the concept of adverbial from a morphosyntactic and functional point of view. We then present a corpus-based description of the categories of adverbials that can be cleaved. Finally, we propose a general semantic principle capable of describing and explaining, in a coherent and unitary way, both the data obtained in our empirical study and found in the form of constructed examples in the existing literature. In addition to explaining why certain adverbials can be cleaved while others cannot, this principle also allows for a distinction to be made between two syntactic realizations of the structure ‘c’est Adv que p’, as well as for a solution to the controversial issue of the status of domain adverbials.

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Cleft constructions in a contrastive perspective

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Definiteil y a-clefts in spoken French

Definiteil y a-clefts in spoken French

Pseudo-clefts in Italian talk-in-interaction and in interaction-as-represented

French adverbial cleft sentences

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