TY  - BOOK
AU  - Agar Marco,Rocío
AU  - Atayan,Vahram
AU  - Baranzini,Laura
AU  - Brianti,Giovanna
AU  - De Cesare,Anna-Maria
AU  - Garassino,Davide
AU  - Gast,Volker
AU  - Korzen,Iørn
AU  - Levshina,Natalia
AU  - Stark,Elisabeth
AU  - Wienen,Ursula
TI  - Frequency, Forms and Functions of Cleft Constructions in Romance and Germanic: Contrastive, Corpus-Based Studies 
T2  - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
SN  - 9783110361070
AV  - P287 
U1  - 455 22/ger
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Germanic languages
KW  - Grammar, Generative
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Clauses
KW  - Romance languages
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Cleft Constructions
KW  - Contrastive Linguistics
KW  - Germanic Languages
KW  - Romance Languages
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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)
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110361872
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110361872
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110361872/original
ER  -