The Role of the English It-Cleft and the French C’est-Cleft in Research Discourse

Despite extensive work on cleft constructions, little attention has been given to their functions in specialised discourse. Using a collection of 40 research articles from the KIAP corpus, this study aims at establishing the role of clefts in English and French research...

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Main Author: Charlotte Bourgoin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Caen 2017-12-01
Series:Discours
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/discours/9366