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ERIC Number: ED096822
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1973-Nov
Pages: 60
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Contrastive Emphasis and Cleft Sentences. Working Papers on Language Universals, No. 12.
Harries, Helga
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how languages express contrastive emphasis. It is argued that all contrastively emphasized constructions have underlying cleft sentences, independent of whether the surface structure is an equational or a nonequational one. It is furthermore argued that emphatic word orders are systematic and predictable given a certain language type, and that the position of the object plays an essential role both in the cleft and noncleft emphatic constructions. (Author)
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Authoring Institution: Stanford Univ., CA. Committee on Linguistics.
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