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"text": "1978, Per-Kristian Halvorsen, The Syntax and Semantics of Cleft Constructions, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, page 28,\nQuirk et al (1972) say about the cleft sentence that it is \"...so called because it divides a single clause into two separate sections, each with its own verb\"."
},
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"ref": "1984, Ann Borkin, Problems in Form and Function, Ablex Publishing Corporation, page 120",
"text": "Following Bolinger (1972, 1977) and Gundel (1977), I assume that the introductory it of cleft sentences is referential[…].",
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"ref": "2007, Joachim Crass, Ronny Meyer, editors, Deictics, Copula and Focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area, page 170",
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"A complex sentence whose meaning could be expressed by a simple sentence, that has a dependent clause in front of the main clause, and that typically stresses a particular constituent."
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"(linguistics) A complex sentence whose meaning could be expressed by a simple sentence, that has a dependent clause in front of the main clause, and that typically stresses a particular constituent."
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "complex sentence stressing a particular constituent",
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"feminine"
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"word": "phrase clivée"
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"code": "fr",
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"word": "abairt scoilte"
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"alt": "ぶんれつぶん",
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},
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"ref": "1984, Ann Borkin, Problems in Form and Function, Ablex Publishing Corporation, page 120",
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"type": "quotation"
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"alt": "ぶんれつぶん",
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