Inferentials in spoken English

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dc.contributor.authorCalude, Andreea S.
dc.contributor.authorDelahunty, Gerald P.
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-19T23:52:14Z
dc.date.available2013-09-19T23:52:14Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractAlthough there is a growing body of research on inferential sentences (Declerck 1992, Delahunty 1990, 1995, 2001, Koops 2007, Pusch 2006), most of this research has been on their forms and functions in written discourse. This has left a gap with regards to their range of structural properties and allowed disagreement over their analysis to linger without a conclusive resolution. Most accounts regard the inferential as a type of it-cleft (Declerck 1992, Delahunty 2001, Huddleston and Pullum 2002, Lambrecht 2001), while a few view it as an instance of extraposition (Collins 1991, Schmid 2009). More recently, Pusch's work in Romance languages proposes the inferential is used as a discourse marker (2006, forthcoming). Based on a corpus study of examples from spoken New Zealand English, the current paper provides a detailed analysis of the formal and discoursal properties of several sub-types of inferentials (positive, negative, as if and like inferentials). We show that despite their apparent formal differences from the prototypical cleft, inferentials are nevertheless best analysed as a type of cleft, though this requires a minor reinterpretation of “cleft construction.” We show how similar the contextualized interpretations of clefts and inferentials are and how these are a function of their lexis and syntax.en_NZ
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dc.identifier.citationCalude, A. S. & Delahunty, G. P. (2011). Inferentials in spoken English. Pragmatics, 21(3), 307-340.en_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.1075/prag.21.3.02calen_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/8007
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfPragmaticsen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://ipra.ua.ac.be/download.aspx?c=*HOME&n=1421&ct=1294&e=10177en_NZ
dc.rightsThis article has been published in the journal: Inferentials in spoken English.en_NZ
dc.subjectinferentialen_NZ
dc.subjectit-cleften_NZ
dc.subjectspoken languageen_NZ
dc.subjectNew Zealand Englishen_NZ
dc.subjectUS Englishen_NZ
dc.subjectdiscourseen_NZ
dc.subjectjusten_NZ
dc.subject(not) as ifen_NZ
dc.subjectlikeen_NZ
dc.subjectdiscourse markersen_NZ
dc.subjectWellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand Englishen_NZ
dc.titleInferentials in spoken Englishen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
pubs.begin-page307en_NZ
pubs.elements-id38449
pubs.end-page340en_NZ
pubs.issue3en_NZ
pubs.volume21en_NZ
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