Pseudocleft
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Resembling or relating to a cleft sentence. not-comparable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From pseudo- + cleft.
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