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• Pseudo-cleft
  ...o-cleft construction''', like the [[cleft]] construction, some part X of a sentence is [[focus]]sed. (ii) is a pseudo-cleft version of (i). The focussed part X (''a herring'') is associated with a [[
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• Presupposition
  ...for the new information, that is usually called the [[focus]]. If we see a sentence as the answer to a question, then the presupposition is the information tha The presupposition of sentence A is boldfaced in B. The focus is ''John''. The [[topic]], ''Mary'' in this
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• Left-dislocation
  ...no overt movement is involved. The element which is placed in front of the sentence is associated with some kind of pronoun: * Smits, R.J.C. 1989. ''The relative and cleft constructions of the Germanic and Romance languages,'' doct. diss. KUB, Til
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• Spaltsatz
  englisch [[cleft sentence]]
  548 bytes (74 words) - 14:58, 27 July 2014
• Topic-comment-distinction
  ...on can also be expressed by [[topicalization]], [[left-dislocation]] and [[cleft]]-constructions, or by prosodic means. Some authors identify this distincti
  870 bytes (109 words) - 19:12, 29 August 2014