Non-prototypical clefts in French
Karssenberg, Lena
This monograph is the first large-scale corpus analysis of French il y a clefts. While most research on clefts focusses on the English 'prototypical' it-cleft and its equivalents across languages, this study examines the lesser-known il y a clefts - of both presentational-eventive and specificational type - and provides an in-depth analysis of their syntactic, semantic and discourse-functional properties. In addition to an extensive literature...