Presentational cleft constructions in spoken French

Lambrecht, Knud

doi:10.1075/tsl.18.08lam

In:Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse
Edited by John Haiman † and Sandra A. Thompson
[Typological Studies in Language 18] 1988
► pp. 135–180

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Presentational cleft constructions in spoken French

Knud Lambrecht

Published online: 1 January 1988

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.18.08lam

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