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Demonstrative Clefts in Spoken
English
by
Andreea S. Calude
A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree of
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
in
Linguistics
University of Auckland
Copyright °c 2007 by Andreea S. Calude
ABSTRACT
This research concerns the structural and discourse related properties of cleft con-
structions found in spoken New Zealand English. In particular, the main analysis
focuses on one cleft type, namely on the demonstrative cleft; examples include (a)
That’s what I had in mind and (b) That’s what I thought. The demonstrative cleft
has received little attention in the literature, and this is reflected in its inconsistent
classification (some believe it to be a reversed wh-cleft, others classify it together
with it-clefts, and others still use the label ‘th-cleft’).
The current work inves