PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CHAPTER 1. TYPES OF COPULAR SENTENCES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Specificational sentences -- 3. Predicational sentences -- 4. Further differences between specificational and predicational sentences -- 5. Descriptionally-identifying sentences -- 6. Identity statements -- 7. Definitions -- 8. Other types -- Chapter 2. 'IT IS MR Y' OR 'HE IS MR Y'? -- CHAPTER 3. PREDICATIONAL it-clefts -- CHAPTER 4. SOME RESTRICTIONS ON IT-CLEFTS THAT HIGHLIGHT PREDICATE NOMINALS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Restrictions -- 3. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. The use of it-clefts and wh-clefts in discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pragmatic subtypes of (specificational) WH-clefts and it-clefts -- 3. The use of clefts in discourse -- 4. Special types -- 5. Conclusion -- CHAPTER 6. SPECIFICATIONAL INTERPRETATION AND WORD ORDER -- REFERENCES.