The pseudo-cleft construction in English / F.R. Higgins.
This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 22nd 1973. The ostensible central topic of this essay is a construction which is generally known as the ""...
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| 500 | |a Originally published in 1979. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; INTRODUCTORY NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Contents; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION; FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER 1; CHAPTER 2: THE PSEUDO-CLEFT TRANSFORMATION; 1. The need for a pseudo-cleft transformation; 2. Specific transformational analyses of the pseudo-cleft construction; 2.1. The deletion analysis; 2.2. The extraction analysis; 2.3. Deletion versus extraction; 2.3.1. The argument from selection restrictions; 2.3.2. The argument from the derivation of cleft sentences; 2.3.3. The argument from negative raising. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3. Difficulties common to both analyses3.1. The determination of focus; 3.2. Non-existent deep structure sources; 3.3. Semantics of the deep structure source; 3.4. Pseudo-cleft sentences with noun antecedents; 3.5. Extraposition; 4. Summary; FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER 2; CHAPTER 3: AMBIGUITY, CONNECTEDNESS, AND THE EXTRACTION ANALYSIS; 1. Akmajian's treatment of ambiguity; 1.1. A sketch of Akmajian's treatment of ambiguity; 1.2. Difficulties with Akmajian's analysis; 2. Towards the null hypothesis; 2.1. Syntactic connectedness in noun phrase examples; 2.2. Focal verb phrases and the source of do. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3. SummaryFOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER 3; CHAPTER 4: NOMINALIZATIONS, THE TRANSFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS, AND SYNTACTIC CONNECTEDNESS; 1. Nominalizations and the transformational analysis; 2. Base derivation and specification; 2.1. Specification and nominalizations; 2.2. Specification and connectedness; 3. Summary; FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER 4; REMARKS TO CHAPTERS 2 AND 4 [September 1976]; CHAPTER 5: COPULAR SENTENCES AND AMBIGUITY; 1. Towards an analysis of copular sentences; 1.1. Terminological framework; 1.2. Tests for underlying word order and function in copular sentences. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 1.2.1. Indirect questions and answers1.2.2. Modal verbs and verbs of propositional attitude; 1.2.3. Pronouns and verb agreement; 1.2.4. Predicational noun phrases; 1.3. Wh-words in copular sentences; 2. Ambiguities in copular sentences; 3. Summary; FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER 5; CHAPTER 6: SOME SPECIAL PROPERTIES OF SPECIFICATIONAL PSEUDO-CLEFT SENTENCES; 1. Movement and deletion constraints; 1.1.; 1.2.; 1.3.; 1.4.; 1.5.; 2. Tense properties; 2.1. Tense harmony; 2.2. Non-finite copula; 3. ""Semantic"" properties; 3.1. Modal verbs; 3.2. Adverbs; 3.3. Negation; 3.4. Tag questions. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3.5. ""Transparency""4. Pronominalization; 5. Towards an explanation of the special properties of Specificational pseudo-cleft sentences; 6. Summary; FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER 6; CHAPTER 7: EPILOGUE; APPENDIX; REFERENCES; ADDITIONAL REFERENCES [December 1978] | |
| 520 | |a This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 22nd 1973. The ostensible central topic of this essay is a construction which is generally known as the ""pseudo-cleft"" construction. This essay aims to provide an overall picture of the construction, and show why another treatment of it is necessary. This book will be of interest to those pursuing the topic of copular sentences. | ||
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