The Cleft Construction in English and Norwegian: A Contrastive Study

Abstract

The paper compares the cleft construction in English and Norwegian. It focuses on the motivation for the use of the cleft construction.

There are three main types of motivation described here: FSP, textual and syntactic. The paper examines similarities and differences between English and Norwegian in the use of the construction.

Keywords

• cleft construction
• textual functions
• functional sentence perspective
• English
• Norwegian