Pseudocleft
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Pseudocleft is an adjective meaning (linguistics) Resembling or relating to a cleft sentence.
Meaning
(linguistics) Resembling or relating to a cleft sentence.
Example Sentences
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clauselike, sentencelike, languagelike, suffixlike, pseudopassive, clumplike.
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