TY - CHAP AU - Martínez Caro, Elena A4 - Blanco Gómez, María Luisa A4 - Marín Arrese, Juana Isabel PY - 2010 DO - 978-84-9849-977-3 SN - 978-84-9849-977-3 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/45720 AB - This paper investigates a variant of the ‘wh’-cleft construction in English illustrated by sentences such as ‘The thing that he loved most of all in the whole world was the sea’, the so called ‘th’-cleft. Following Collins (1991), such construction is... LA - eng M2 - 209 PB - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Servicio de Publicaciones : Dykinson KW - Th-clefts KW - Pseudo-clefts KW - English KW - British National Corpus KW - London-Lund Corpus. TI - Discourse functions of th-clefts in English TY - book part VL - 28 ER -