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Pseudocleft Constructions

Pseudocleft Constructions is a syntactic construction in which a constituent of interest is focused by being moved to the clause-initial position and followed by a form of the verb "be" and a relative clause that recovers the rest of the proposition, differing from other cleft types by not requiring a dummy subject like "it" and typically exhibiting a more direct focus-prominence structure.

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2017–2026

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Variants

Wh-clefts

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Pseudoclefts and ellipsis

Marcel den Dikken, André Meinunger, Chris Wilder · Studia Linguistica · 2000 · 331 citations

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Pseudocleft Connectedness: Implications for the LF Interface Level

Caroline Heycock, Anthony Kroch · Linguistic Inquiry · 1999 · 322 citations

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Shi … de focus clefts in Mandarin Chinese

Waltraud Paul, John Whitman · The Linguistic Review · 2008 · 149 citations

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More concealed pseudoclefts in Malagasy and the Clausal Typing Hypothesis

Eric Potsdam · Lingua · 2005 · 144 citations

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Optimization via syntactic amalgam: Syntax-prosody mismatch and copula doubling

Jason Brenier, Laura A. Michaelis · Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory · 2005 · 137 citations

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Authors

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  1. AM
    André Meinunger

    Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics, Germany

    2 publications · 354 citations

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  2. EP
    Eric Potsdam

    University of Florida, United States

    2 publications · 155 citations

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  3. AL
    Ana Lúcia Santos

    University of Lisbon, Portugal

    1 publications · 23 citations

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  4. LA
    Laura A. Michaelis

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    1 publications · 137 citations

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  5. YI
    Y. Ishihara

    The University of Tokyo, Japan

    1 publications · 13 citations

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Institutions

20

  1. University of Florida

    Gainesville, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    155 citations

  2. Russian State University for the Humanities

    Moscow, Russia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

  3. Université Paris Cité

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    23 citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    38 citations

  5. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    149 citations

  6. École des hautes études en sciences sociales

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    149 citations

  7. University of Potsdam

    Potsdam, Germany

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    66 citations

  8. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    322 citations

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Venues

  1. Language

    3 publications · 90 citations

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  2. Studia Linguistica

    2 publications · 379 citations

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  3. Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)

    Repository · 2 publications · 39 citations

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  4. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

    Repository · 2 publications · 125 citations

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  5. Linguistic Typology

    1 publications · 37 citations

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