The historical development of the it-cleft: A comparison of two different approaches

Patten, Amanda (2012) The historical development of the it-cleft: A comparison of two different approaches. Studies in Language, 36 (3). pp. 548-575. ISSN 0378-4177

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Abstract

This paper compares two approaches to a particular grammatical change. While Ball (1991, 1994) investigates the development of the it-cleft configuration from within the generative tradition of the 1990s, I have recently re-examined the historical it-cleft data from a constructional perspective (see Patten 2010, forthcoming). In this paper, I show how our different theoretical assumptions lead us to categorize and analyse the data differently. I conclude that a constructional approach is better at interpreting the diachronic facts.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Q100 Linguistics
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
Depositing User:	Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2013 10:32
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 19:24
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/11233

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