nam a22 c 4500 la.185/634010339 nljbp 250625051522.4 cr ||||||||||| 241222s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2012003363 9789027274601 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P295 415 23 CFK bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Reeve, Matthew author Clefts and their Relatives Matthew Reeve Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (xiii, 223 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 0166-0829 185 Includes bibliographical references and index. Abbreviations used in glosses -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The syntax of English clefts -- Chapter 3. Clefts and the licensing of relative clauses -- Chapter 4. Clefts in Slavonic languages -- Chapter 5. The syntax of specificational sentences -- Chapter 6. Conclusion Cleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for syntactic theory. This monograph argues that clefts and related constructions cannot be analysed in a straightforwardly compositional manner. Instead, it proposes that the locality conditions on modification (for example by a restrictive relative clause) must be reformulated such that they account for the apparent compositionality of DP-internal modification whilst also permitting ‘discontinuous’ modification of the type which is independently needed for constructions such as relative clause extraposition. The empirical focus of the book is on clefts in English and Russian, which have a similar interpretation but considerably divergent syntactic structures. The author argues that, despite these syntactic differences, both types of cleft are mapped to their semantic interpretations in the same manner. This monograph will be essential reading for those working on cleft constructions and copular sentences more generally, and will be of interest to those working on the syntax-semantics interface. Provided by publisher. Generative linguistics Syntax Theoretical linguistics Reeve, Matthew author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027255686 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/la.185 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027274601