The Referential Status of Clefts  

Oleh:

Hedberg, Nancy

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 76 no. 4 (1999), page 891-920.
Fulltext: Vol. 76, No. 4, pp. 891-920.pdf (640.84KB)

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This article has two main parts. In the first, the subject pronoun in a cleft sentence together with the cleft clause is shown to function pragmatically as a discontinuous definite description. Applying the GIVENNESS HIERARCHY (Gundel et al. 1993) makes it possible to explain the distribu- tion of this-clefts and that-clefts in discourse, and predicts the more frequent occurrence of it- clefts. Clefts also semantically share existential and exhaustiveness conditions with definite de- scriptions. The second part presents a new syntactic analysis of clefts, which treats the cleft clause as an extraposed complement of the cleft subject pronoun, adjoined to the clefted constituent.*

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