ABSTRACT
In this chapter the informational and thematic analysis of cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions that was developed in Chapter 5 is applied to the description of tokens from LL and LOB. The various communicative values that result from the interaction of given-new structure and theme-rheme structure are identified and, wherever relevant, figures derived from the corpus investigation are presented. I shall examine firstly basic pseudo-clefts, followed by reversed pseudoclefts, and then clefts.
