Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from May 2001

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from May 2001

Discourse functions and language-specific conditions for the use of cleft(-like) sentences: a prelude(1).
May 1, 2001... Such a cross-linguistic perspective will help us, I think, to see the general properties... more clearly and to separate general from language-specific facts. Ekkehard Konig (1991: 5) Lambrecht (this issue) tells us that it was...

A framework for the analysis of cleft constructions(*).
May 1, 2001... "Why, for example, should a sensible designer create only in Australia a suite of marsupials to fill the same roles that placental mammals occupy on all other continents? Darwin even wrote an entire book on orchids to argue that the structures...

Discourse functions of inferential sentences(*).
May 1, 2001... Abstract Inferential sentences (a.k.a. sentential-focus clefts), such as "It's that women in Ireland are not a form of prayer," occur in a wide array of languages but have rarely been studied thoroughly. This paper attempts to answer...

Clefts in contrast: a contrastive study of it clefts and wh clefts in English and Swedish texts and translations(*).
May 1, 2001... Abstract This paper presents corpus-elicited contrastive data relevant to the interand intralanguage study of cleft constructions. It is shown that even in closely related languages like English and Swedish, the frequency and distribution...

The German and Norwegian correspondences to the English construction type that's what(1).
May 1, 2001... Abstract This paper examines the German and Norwegian correspondences to English constructions of the type that's what. The study is based on material drawn from the Oslo Multilingual Corpus, which contains original texts and their...

Cleft-like sentences(*).
May 1, 2001... "The question is which is to be master." -- Humpty Dumpty Abstract Comparing translations of certain copular sentences with dummy subjects, the present paper demonstrates different preferences in English and German, interpreting them...