Specificational Copular Sentences and Pseudoclefts

Marcel den Dikken

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This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: types of copular sentences Types of pseudocleft sentences Specificational copular sentences and pseudoclefts: an inventory of properties Reversibility The wh-clause: Question or free relative? Analyses of the relation between specificational pseudoclefts and simple sentences: transformation or base generation?

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