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CLEFTING [1 record]

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Record 1 1986-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grammar
OBS

The formation of a sentence of the form "It is (was, would, be, etc.) X that Y", which would correspond to a sentence constructed in a more conventional manner. For example, clefting would produce a sentence like "It is chocolate that John likes", corresponding to the sentence "John likes chocolate".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grammaire
CONT

En grammaire générative, le clivage est une opération d'enchâssement de relative accompagné de l'extraction d'un des syntagmes nominaux de cette relative.

Spanish

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