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Harries-Delisle, Helga. 1973. Contrastive emphasis and cleft sentences. Working Papers on Language Universals 12 : 85–144.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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H. argues that all constructions used to express contrastive emphasis have underlying cleft sentences, and that emphatic word orders are systematic and predictable given a certain language type.