Martínez Caro, ElenaBlanco Gómez, María LuisaMarín Arrese, Juana Isabel2023-06-202023-06-202010978-84-9849-977-3978-84-9849-977-3https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/45720This 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 considered a type of pseudo-cleft construction because of its formal and functional similarity with the ‘canonical’ pseudo-cleft with a fused relative clause introduced by a ‘wh’-interrogative. The main aim of this study is to examine th-cleft constructions in Modern English, focusing on their main discourse and informational functions.engbook parthttps://www.dykinson.com/libros/discourse-and-communication-cognitive-and-functional-perspectives/9788498499773/https://www.dykinson.com/restricted access811.111'367Th-cleftsPseudo-cleftsEnglishBritish National CorpusLondon-Lund Corpus.LingüísticaFilología inglesa57 Lingüística5505.10 Filología