Les exclamations cachées de la forme It’s astonishing the amount of anxiety in our society : l’enchâssement du syntagme nominal, entre rupture syntaxique et continuité sémantique

This study questions the syntactic status of the NPs in exclamative constructions, such as It’s amazing the car he bought, that is to say in constructions in which the pronoun IT is followed by BE, by an emotive hyperbolic adjective such as amazing, and by a concealed exclamation (Elliott 1971) — a...

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Main Author: Olivia Reneaud-Jensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2023-11-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/5552
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