A Multi-Level Account of Cleft Constructions in Discourse
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چکیده
This pal~;r presents an analysis and synthesis of the factors relevant to the decision to use a cleft construction in discourse. The model described, based on a corpus of 587 naturally-occurring cleft constructions in written and spoken discourse, consists of two stages. The first stage concerus the decision to use a cleft construction rather than a non-cleft; the second describes the factors relevant in deciding between three types of cleft: it-clefts, such as that in example (1), wh-clefts, such as (2), m~d reverse wh-clefts, such as (3):
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