ENGLISH

The Pseudo-Cleft Construction in English

By F. R. Higgins

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
ISBN
1138900311, 9781138900318
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4697214 bytes)
Series
Routledge Library Editions: The English Language 13
Pages
viii+393\408
Topic
Linguistics\\Linguistics
Time added
2018-05-31 16:19:25
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Description

This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 22nd 1973. The ostensible central topic of this essay is a construction which is generally known as the "pseudo-cleft" construction. This essay aims to provide an overall picture of the construction, and show why another treatment of it is necessary. This book will be of interest to those pursuing the topic of copular sentences.

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