Approaches to the study of cleft and pseudo-cleft constructions

The book reports findings from a corpus-based study of clefts and pseudo-clefts in modern British English. As well as providing information on frequencies of occurrence across a range of genres, the corpus-based approach has the salutary effect of requiring that attention be paid to ‘untidy’ data of a type often overlooked, or ignored, in studies based on introspectively derived examples.