EAN: 9783039118076

MAIN PROCESSES OF THEMATIZATION AND POSTPONEMEN...

The purpose of this book is to describe the main formal and functional characteristics of all
the syntactic processes of thematization and postponement in English. It describes in detail
the main aspects of cleft sentences  reversed-pseudo cleft sentences  topicalization  inversion
left-dislocation  passive  extraposition  existential sentences  pseudo-cleft sentences 
postposition and right-dislocation. The main aspects of use will be illustrated with examples
from three novels written by the South African writer Alan Paton. The book is divided into
three main chapters: the first one is a general introduction which explains some general
concepts related to word order  to the corpus of examples and to Alan Paton  the author of the
novels chosen as a corpus of examples  the second chapter is devoted to the syntactic processes
of thematization in English and the third one to the syntactic processes of postponement.

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