* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
LINGUIST List logo Eastern Michigan University Wayne State University *
* People & Organizations * Jobs * Calls & Conferences * Publications * Language Resources * Text & Computer Tools * Teaching & Learning * Mailing Lists * Search *
* *
LINGUIST List 23.2924

Tue Jul 03 2012

Books: Clefts and their Relatives: Reeve

Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <daniellalinguistlist.org>

Date: 02-Jul-2012
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Clefts and their Relatives: Reeve
E-mail this message to a friend

Title: Clefts and their Relatives
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 185
Published: 2012
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/la.185

Author: Matthew Reeve
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027274601 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027274601 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255686 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 99.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255686 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255686 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 104.94
Abstract:

Cleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for
syntactic theory. This monograph argues that clefts and related
constructions cannot be analysed in a straightforwardly compositional
manner. Instead, it proposes that the locality conditions on modification
(for example by a restrictive relative clause) must be reformulated such
that they account for the apparent compositionality of DP-internal
modification whilst also permitting 'discontinuous' modification of the
type which is independently needed for constructions such as relative
clause extraposition. The empirical focus of the book is on clefts in
English and Russian, which have a similar interpretation but considerably
divergent syntactic structures. The author argues that, despite these
syntactic differences, both types of cleft are mapped to their semantic
interpretations in the same manner. This monograph will be essential
reading for those working on cleft constructions and copular sentences more
generally, and will be of interest to those working on the syntax-semantics
interface.

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                            Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                            Russian (rus)

Written In: English (eng)

See this book announcement on our website:
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=61019

Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue

-------------------------- Major Supporters --------------------------
Brill http://www.brill.nl
Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org
Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org
Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com
De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/
Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics
Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/
European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info.
Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu
Hodder Education http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk
John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/
Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu
MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/
Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us
Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com
Pearson Linguistics http://www.pearsoned.co.uk/linguistics
Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com
Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/
Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/
Springer http://www.springer.com
University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/
Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com

---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ----------------------
Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm
Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/
International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be
Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/
SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp
University of Nebraska Press
Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/



Page Updated: 03-Jul-2012
Supported in part by the National Science Foundation       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       ILIT Logo
While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.