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By Peter C. Collins

First released in 1991, this ebook examines the communicative homes of ‘cleft’ and ‘pseudo-cleft’ buildings in modern English. The publication argues that those homes can't be missed in any try to offer an enough grammatical description of the buildings. moreover, they supply a resource of reasons for the styles of stylistic edition displayed by means of clefts and pseudo-clefts. The e-book experiences findings from a corpus-based learn of clefts and pseudo-clefts in sleek British English.

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