It-extraposition and Non-extraposition in English

Download or read book It-extraposition and Non-extraposition in English written by Gunther Kaltenböck and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaltenbock (English and American studies, University of Vienna) investigates the syntactic and functional properties of it-extraposition and non-extraposition in both spoken and written contemporary British English. The study is based on a large-scale corpus analysis of data obtained from the British component of the International Corpus of English. The author examines the syntactic, semantic, and stylistic factors inhibiting or restricting the possibility of extraposition, and the functional factors influencing the choice between use of it-extraposition and non- extraposition. Distributed in the U.S. by Purdue U. Press. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).