National audienceThis paper deals with the notion of saliency in pseudo-cleft sentences (CWh: What we want is peace) and reverse clefts starting with that/this (CThat: That's what we want) in (semi)-spontaneous speech. We study the respective roles of syntax and prosody in the expression of saliency. We show that, if syntax expresses focalisation in CWh, prosody can increase saliency (on the clefted constituent or the wh-clause) or remain neutral. We show that CThat, as prosody partly indicates, are not truly " reverse clefts ". That is not focalised but only topicalised. But prosody can also play a part at a different level to indicate a different type of saliency: emphasis or contrast (in the clefted constituent or in the wh-clause).Nous ...
Studies on written English analyse the pseudo-cleft construction in view of the cleft construction. ...
National audienceThis paper addresses the question of the interface between prosody and syntax throu...
This paper investigates a variant of the ‘wh’-cleft construction in English illustrated by sentences...
National audienceThis paper deals with the notion of saliency in pseudo-cleft sentences (CWh: What w...
This paper deals with the notion of saliency in pseudo-cleft sentences (CWh: What we want is peace) ...
International audienceSeveral recent studies devoted to French clefts involving a pronominal / adver...
textThis dissertation contributes to a fuller description of the French c'est-cleft by reporting on ...
We closely examine occurrences of it-clefts in a corpus of (semi)-spontaneous English in order to de...
International audienceThe syntactic and discursive status of c'est comme ça que (this is how) in spo...
International audienceThe prosodic and pragmatic analysis of some 450 examples of clefts, taken in c...
This book proposes a radically new account of clefts in English. Since the 1960s, functional as well...
International audienceIt-clefts (It’s John who broke the vase), Wh-clefts (What we want is peace) an...
Towards a more complete description of cleft constructions, this thesis comprises an investigation o...
The prosodic properties of clefts, illustrated by examples from speech corpora, justify a distinctio...
This thesis presents an analysis of the structure and function of cleft constructions in discourse....
Studies on written English analyse the pseudo-cleft construction in view of the cleft construction. ...
National audienceThis paper addresses the question of the interface between prosody and syntax throu...
This paper investigates a variant of the ‘wh’-cleft construction in English illustrated by sentences...
National audienceThis paper deals with the notion of saliency in pseudo-cleft sentences (CWh: What w...
This paper deals with the notion of saliency in pseudo-cleft sentences (CWh: What we want is peace) ...
International audienceSeveral recent studies devoted to French clefts involving a pronominal / adver...
textThis dissertation contributes to a fuller description of the French c'est-cleft by reporting on ...
We closely examine occurrences of it-clefts in a corpus of (semi)-spontaneous English in order to de...
International audienceThe syntactic and discursive status of c'est comme ça que (this is how) in spo...
International audienceThe prosodic and pragmatic analysis of some 450 examples of clefts, taken in c...
This book proposes a radically new account of clefts in English. Since the 1960s, functional as well...
International audienceIt-clefts (It’s John who broke the vase), Wh-clefts (What we want is peace) an...
Towards a more complete description of cleft constructions, this thesis comprises an investigation o...
The prosodic properties of clefts, illustrated by examples from speech corpora, justify a distinctio...
This thesis presents an analysis of the structure and function of cleft constructions in discourse....
Studies on written English analyse the pseudo-cleft construction in view of the cleft construction. ...
National audienceThis paper addresses the question of the interface between prosody and syntax throu...
This paper investigates a variant of the ‘wh’-cleft construction in English illustrated by sentences...