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Publication details [#9331]

Talmy, Leonard. 1975. Copy-clefting. Working Papers on Language Universals 17 : 77–107.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cleft construction | coordination | topicalization

Annotation

A syntactic and semantic study of copy-cleft sentences such as 'It was raining, so we stayed home' (as opposed to 'We stayed home because it was raining'): copy-clefting is a generalized version of the topicalization process for nominals.

Reprints

Greenberg, Joseph Harold. 1978. Relations between subordination and coordination. In Greenberg, Joseph Harold, ed. Universals of human language. Stanford UP. pp. 487–513.