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29 - English Language and Literature

University of Northumbria at Newcastle

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Book title

The English it-cleft: a constructional account and a diachronic investigation

Type

A - Authored book

DOI

Publisher of book

De Gruyter

ISBN of book

9783110279528

Year of publication

2012

URL

http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/11155/

Number of additional authors

Additional information

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Yes

Double-weighted statement

This book includes a diachronic investigation of the English it-cleft construction, spanning from Old English to Modern English. This involves the analysis of a considerable body of data extracted from four historical corpora: the YCOE, the PPCME2, the PPCEME and the PPCMBE. It also examines the it-cleft from a synchronic perspective, using frequency information gathered from a large contemporary corpus: the ICE-GB. This amounted to a lengthy period of data collection, coding and analysis: the selection and sorting of it-cleft data was complex and time-consuming; it-clefts are notoriously difficult to identify and separate from superficially similar but structurally distinct sentence-types.

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