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Publication details [#44038]

Collins, Peter. 2006. It-clefts and wh-clefts: Prosody and pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (10) : 1706–1720.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
cleft construction | pragmatics | presupposition | prosody | topicality
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper on prosody ad pragmatics deals with informativity, topicality, presupposition and weight in it-clefts and wh-clefts.