{"product_id":"english-it-cleft","title":"English it-Cleft","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the structure and function of the English it-cleft configuration from within the framework of construction grammar. It defends a straightforward extraposition-from-NP analysis (on which the cleft clause is a restrictive relative, modifying the initial it) and claims that all types of it-cleft involve nominal predication. Support for this analysis comes from three main areas: (a) the central role of definiteness in the creation of specificational meaning, (b) the existence and makeup of predicational (and proverbial) it-clefts, and (c) the early, historical it-cleft data. In addition, the book contains a sizeable diachronic component, drawing data from the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English and from the International Corpus of English - Great Britain. This investigation informs and advances what is an otherwise simple account of the English it-cleft, explaining how and why the configuration has developed an assortment of peculiar, construction-specific properties over time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57335208116568,"sku":"9783110277807","price":133.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783110277807_d9464f39-4ca3-4522-90d9-82797de1b7a6.jpg?v=1779521462","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/english-it-cleft","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}