Cleft sentence patterns in the opening formula of Coptic letters | ||
| المجلة العلمیة لکلیة الآداب-جامعة أسیوط | ||
| Article 19, Volume 28, Issue 82, April 2022, Pages 549-564 PDF (1.21 M) | ||
| Document Type: بحوث علمية محکمة | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/aakj.2023.117341.1181 | ||
| Author | ||
| Asmaa Mohammed Abdel Azem* | ||
| English Department, Faculty of Art, Assiut University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Cleft sentence is one of the prevalent focus strategies in the Coptic language, it could encode different focus readings depending on the context, one of which is presentational (new information) focus, one typical example of the presentational reading of Coptic clefts is the opening formula of Coptic letters. This paper intends to investigate the grammatical features of the basic cleft patterns represented in the epistolary opening formula. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Coptic language; cleft sentence; Focus; Coptic letters; Opening formula | ||
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