1. Exhaustiveness Implicature Focus clauses of it-clefts and WH-clefts of specificational use are more generally associated with a well-known implicature, which excludes from the set the elements other than the one(s) appearing in the focus position of these constructions: ..
Clefts (Norwegian: Utbryting) is a common phenomenon in Norwegian. It is traditionally considered pr...
International audienceIt-clefts (It’s John who broke the vase), Wh-clefts (What we want is peace) an...
This paper presents the results of corpus research on the distribution of different functional-pragm...
We offer a new analysis of the semantics of the English it-cleft, building on recent work on exclusi...
The goal of the paper is to shed new light on the semantics and pragmatics of cleft sentences by dis...
This paper discusses a specific subclass of English it-clefts posited in the theoretical literature, ...
When speakers mark the focus of a sentence they do so because they need to highlight that this const...
This paper examines quasi-monoclausal left-peripheral analyses of English it-clefts. Though attracti...
Cleft sentences contain what is called Presupposition, the content of which can never be influenced ...
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate it-cleft constructions in English and propose a non...
This dissertation addresses the interpretation of it-clefts in German, as well as that of the relat...
This book proposes a radically new account of clefts in English. Since the 1960s, functional as well...
This study examines how the discourse functions of two English cleft constructions, the wh-cleft (e....
The goal of the paper is to shed new light on the semantics and pragmatics of cleft sentences by dis...
This study reveals how two important focus articulations change over time in written English. Consti...
Clefts (Norwegian: Utbryting) is a common phenomenon in Norwegian. It is traditionally considered pr...
International audienceIt-clefts (It’s John who broke the vase), Wh-clefts (What we want is peace) an...
This paper presents the results of corpus research on the distribution of different functional-pragm...
We offer a new analysis of the semantics of the English it-cleft, building on recent work on exclusi...
The goal of the paper is to shed new light on the semantics and pragmatics of cleft sentences by dis...
This paper discusses a specific subclass of English it-clefts posited in the theoretical literature, ...
When speakers mark the focus of a sentence they do so because they need to highlight that this const...
This paper examines quasi-monoclausal left-peripheral analyses of English it-clefts. Though attracti...
Cleft sentences contain what is called Presupposition, the content of which can never be influenced ...
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate it-cleft constructions in English and propose a non...
This dissertation addresses the interpretation of it-clefts in German, as well as that of the relat...
This book proposes a radically new account of clefts in English. Since the 1960s, functional as well...
This study examines how the discourse functions of two English cleft constructions, the wh-cleft (e....
The goal of the paper is to shed new light on the semantics and pragmatics of cleft sentences by dis...
This study reveals how two important focus articulations change over time in written English. Consti...
Clefts (Norwegian: Utbryting) is a common phenomenon in Norwegian. It is traditionally considered pr...
International audienceIt-clefts (It’s John who broke the vase), Wh-clefts (What we want is peace) an...
This paper presents the results of corpus research on the distribution of different functional-pragm...