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标题：Clefting and extraposition in English
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作者：Andreea S. Calude
期刊名称：ICAME Journal
印刷版ISSN：0801-5775
电子版ISSN：1502-5462
出版年度：2008
卷号：2008
期号：32
页码：7-7–34
出版社：School of Computing
摘要：Clefts and extraposition have structural and functional similarities, yet they have been mostly treated separately. An investigation of the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English reveals cases where the two constructions appear confounded and difficult to disentangle. The present paper argues that they can indeed be differentiated, and provides a test which can be used to this end. This work offers contributions of a practical nature, in that it provides researchers with an objective criterion for distinguishing between clefts and extraposition, and also in a more theoretical sense, in its focus on two important strategies used in information packaging and discourse organization.