12 - Tough, Extraposition, and Cleft Constructions
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We discuss tough, extraposition, and cleft constructions. These constructions, like wh-interrogatives and wh-relative clauses, involve a kind of long-distance dependency but behave differently in many respects. The chapter explores these differences and offers a nonderivational construction-based analysis. We distinguish three cleft constructions of English based on their information-structure properties.
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- Syntactic Constructions in English , pp. 290 - 316Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020