Matthew Reeve
List of John Benjamins publications in which Matthew Reeve is
involved.
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Clefts and their Relatives
Matthew Reeve
Cleft constructions have long presented an analytical challenge for syntactic theory. This monograph argues that clefts and related constructions cannot be analysed in a straightforwardly compositional manner. Instead, it proposes that the locality conditions on modification (for example by a… read moreArticle
Reeve, Matthew 2013
The cleft pronoun and cleft clause in English Cleft Structures, Hartmann, Katharina and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 165–186 | Article In this paper I argue against both ‘specificational’ and ‘expletive’ analyses of English clefts. I provide new evidence that the cleft pronoun it is non-expletive, and that the cleft clause is interpreted as a discontinuous definite description with it, as under specificational analyses. On the… read more 
