Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Author's Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cataphora and the copular sentence -- 3. Synchronic and diachronic aspects of various copular sentence types -- 4. Resumptive constructions: topicalization -- 5. The cleft sentence -- 6. 'Bergin's Law'and the cleft sentence -- Appendix -- Editor's Notes -- Bibliography