pseudocleft
adjEtymology From pseudo- + cleft.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Resembling or relating to a cleft sentence.
- Given that Malagasy has wh-in-situ questions, the pseudocleft analysis is simply an extension of this strategy, in which the wh-phrase is in-situ as a predicate.2006, Hans-Martin Gärtner, Paul S. Law, Joachim Sabel, Clause Structure And Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages, page 201:
- Related terms
- pseudoclefting