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

Patten, Amanda (2014) The historical development of the it-cleft: A comparison of two different approaches. In: Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 87-114. ISBN 9789027242556

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Abstract

This chapter 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, 2012). In this chapter, 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:	Book Section
Subjects:	Q100 Linguistics
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities
Related URLs:	Library Catalogue
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	03 Dec 2014 11:07
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 19:24
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/18366

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