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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>In the '''pseudo-cleft construction''', like the [[cleft]] construction, some part X of a sentence is [[focus]]sed.<br />
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=== Example ===<br />
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(ii) is a pseudo-cleft version of (i). The focussed part X (''a herring'') is associated with a [[free relative]] clause in a copula construction:<br />
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(i) John ate a herring<br />
(ii) [What John ate e] was ''a herring''<br />
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=== Links ===<br />
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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Pseudo-cleft&lemmacode=457 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br />
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=== References ===<br />
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* Smits, R.J.C. 1989. ''The relative and cleft constructions of the Germanic and Romance languages,'' doct. diss. KUB, Tilburg, Dordrecht: Foris, 1988.<br />
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