Cesare A.-M. de (Ed.) Frequency, Forms and Functions of Cleft Constructions in Romance and Germanic: Contrastive, Corpus-Based Studies

De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — 426 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; 281). — ISBN 978-3-11-036107-0, 978-3-11-036187-2, 978-3-11-039474-0.The volume describes the frequency, the forms and the functions of different cleft construction types across two language families: the Romance languages (with discussion of Italian, French and Spanish data) and the Germanic languages (with focus on English, German, Swiss German and Danish).