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Towards the copular status of clefts—Evidence from diachrony
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Dawei Jin School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Rd, Shanghai, 200240, China

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Online Publication Date:
10 May 2022
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10 May 2022
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/2062.2022.00423
Keywords:
cleft sentence; identificational focus; copula; syntactic change
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Abstract

This paper draws attention to a robust grammatical change trajectory, here dubbed the copula-to-cleft pathway. We show that the emergence of the copular clause construction tends to lead to the emergence of the cleft construction, and the decline of one tends to be in tandem with the other. We further propose that the above pattern follows from a syntactic treatment that derives the cleft structure from a copular clause. Such copular syntax can be further combined with a semantic analysis where the focus interpretation of clefts is computed based on a copular structure.

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Scite Score		 53/85=0,6
Scopus
Scite Score Rank		 Cultural Studies 293/1002 (Q2)
Literature and Literary Theory 60/823(Q1)
Scopus
SNIP		 0,768
Acceptance
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Acta Linguistica Academica
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Acta Linguistica Academica
Language English
Size B5
Year of
Foundation		 2017 (1951)
Volumes
per Year		 1
Issues
per Year		 4
Founder Magyar Tudományos Akadémia   
Founder's
Address		 H-1051 Budapest, Hungary, Széchenyi István tér 9.
Publisher Akadémiai Kiadó
Publisher's
Address		 H-1117 Budapest, Hungary 1516 Budapest, PO Box 245.
Responsible
Publisher		 Chief Executive Officer, Akadémiai Kiadó
ISSN 2559-8201 (Print)
ISSN 2560-1016 (Online)

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