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This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 22nd 1973. The ostensible central topic of this essay is a construction which is generally known as the "pseudo-cleft" construction. This essay aims to provide an overall picture of the construction, and show why... Read more
Introductory Note; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Footnotes for Chapter 1; 2. The Pseudo-Cleft Transformation; Footnotes to Chapter 2; 3. Ambiguity, Connectedness, and the Extraction; Footnotes to Chapter 3; 4. Nominalizations, the Transformational Analysis, and Syntactic Connectedness; Footnotes to Chapter 4; Remarks to Chapters 2 and 4; 5. Copular Sentences and Ambiguity; Footnotes to Chapter 5; 6: Some Special Properties of Specificational Pseudo-Cleft Sentences; Footnotes to Chapter 6; 7. Epilogue; Appendix; References; Additional References
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