Thesis/Dissertation: Demonstrative Clefts in Spoken English
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ABSTRACT
This research concerns the structural and discourse related properties of cleft constructions found in spoken New Zealand English. In particular, the main analysis focuses on one cleft type, namely on the demonstrative cleft; examples include (a) That’s what I had in mind and (b) That’s what I thought. The demonstrative cleft has received little attention in the literature, and this is reflected in its inconsistent classification (some believe it to be a reversed wh-cleft, others classify it together with it -clefts, and others still use the label ‘th-cleft’).
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