Discourse and Grammar : Focussing and defocussing in English

0 Some of you (esp the teachers) may be interested in this monograph, available on the Web:02br
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00Peter Erdmann01font02br
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01font00Discourse and Grammar02font02br
01font01b00Focussing and defocussing in English02b02font02br
01font00This monograph is concerned with the analysis and description of five grammatical structures against the background of their use in written texts. The constructions referred to are placed in two different functional categories -- focussing 01i00it02i00 (01i00it02i00 clefts) and 01i00wh02i00-sentences (01i00wh02i00-clefts), and defocussing syntagms, i.e. inversion, 01i00there02i00 sentences and extrapositional 01i00it02i00 sentences. The monograph attempts to describe these constructions grammatically and lexically, as well as to specify their function and use indiscourse.02font02br
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