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Frequency, Forms and Functions of Cleft Constructions in Romance and Germanic : Contrastive, Corpus-Based Studies / ed. by Anna-Maria De Cesare.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 281Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110361070
  • 9783110394740
  • 9783110361872
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 455 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • P287
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Italian Cleft Constructions in a Contrastive Perspective -- 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 -- Part II. Romance and Germanic Cleft Constructions in Contrast -- 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
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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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Italian Cleft Constructions in a Contrastive Perspective -- 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 -- Part II. Romance and Germanic Cleft Constructions in Contrast -- 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

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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).

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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