Frontmatter -- Contents -- It-clefts: State-of-the-art, and some empirical challenges -- 1 Cleft wh-questions as biclausal structures -- 2 What is it that requires or constrains clefts? (Dis)Favouring factors for clefting in Germanic and Romance -- 3 Subject versus object clefts: A fresh perspective on a robust asymmetry -- 4 Making the case for distinguishing information structure from specification in English it-clefts -- 5 The emergence and early development of c'est 'it is' clefts in French L1 -- 6 Distributed computational models of intervention effects: A study on cleft structures in French -- 7 It-cleft constructions in Réunion Creole -- 8 (It-)clefts in Palenquero Creole and the specificational copula -- 9 A cartographic approach to Chinese V de O clefts -- Index