IT-EXTRAPOSITION & NON-EXTRAPOSITION IN ENGLISH (BAND 90)
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
3700314612
ISBN 13
9783700314615
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
336
Description
The object of this study are the syntactic and functional properties of extraposed vs. non-extraposed clauses in English (e.g. It is surprising that John went to London vs. That John went to London is surprising). The main emphasis is put on the differences of it-extraposition and non-extraposition in their discursive function. Kaltenbock shows that the exchangeability of the two structures as postulated by generative linguistics is to be qualified. Along with syntactic, semantic and stylistic aspects the work discusses mainly functional factors. - from Amzon
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