This article will examine the French c’est-cleft, a marked word order construction that can be considered as the formal equivalent of the English it-cleft. The French c’est-cleft is considerably more frequent than the English it-cleft, being widespread both in spoken language and writing. I discuss some of the formal language-specific conditions that contribute to the greater use of the c’est-cleft in French.
Shirley Carter-Thomas. The French c’est-cleft : function and frequency. David Banks; Simon Eason; Janet Ormrod. La linguistique systémique fonctionnelle et la langue française, L’Harmattan, pp.127-157, 2009, 978-2-296-09278-5.
- Date de publication
- 5 mai 2008
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- par Shirley Carter-Thomas