It-clefts as pragmatically-motivated extraposed constructions?
Christelle Lacassain • Discours
(2026)
This paper investigates the discursive and pragmatic functions of it-clefts in contemporary English. The qualitative corpus-based study is based on the hypothesis that an it-cleft originates from the extraposition of a complex noun phrase i...
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10.4000/16hth