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Cleft sentence, the Glossary

A cleft sentence is a complex sentence (one having a main clause and a dependent clause) that has a meaning that could be expressed by a simple sentence.^[1]

39 relations: Adpositional phrase, Cambridge University Press, Constituent (linguistics), Copula (linguistics), Deixis, Dependent clause, Dummy pronoun, Dwight Bolinger, English language, Focus (linguistics), Generalized quantifier, Goidelic languages, Hiberno-English, Highland English, Interrogative word, Intonation (linguistics), Irish language, Joan Bresnan, Judy Delin, Manx language, Michael Halliday, Noam Chomsky, Noun phrase, OmniScriptum, Oxford University Press, Phrase structure rules, Predicate (grammar), Pro-form, Pronoun, Question, Relative clause, Rosanna Sornicola, Scots language, Scottish English, Scottish Gaelic, Sentence clause structure, Spoken language, Topicalization, Word order.
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Adpositional phrase

An adpositional phrase is a syntactic category that includes prepositional phrases, postpositional phrases, and circumpositional phrases.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Constituent (linguistics)

In syntactic analysis, a constituent is a word or a group of words that function as a single unit within a hierarchical structure.

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In linguistics, a copula /‘kɑpjələ/ (copulas or copulae; abbreviated) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement, such as the word is in the sentence "The sky is blue" or the phrase was not being in the sentence "It was not being cooperative." The word copula derives from the Latin noun for a "link" or "tie" that connects two different things.

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Deixis

In linguistics, deixis is the use of words or phrases to refer to a particular time (e.g. then), place (e.g. here), or person (e.g. you) relative to the context of the utterance.

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Dependent clause

A dependent clause, also known as a subordinate clause, subclause or embedded clause, is a certain type of clause that juxtaposes an independent clause within a complex sentence.

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Dummy pronoun

A dummy pronoun, also known as an expletive pronoun, is a deictic pronoun that fulfills a syntactical requirement without providing a contextually explicit meaning of its referent.

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Dwight Bolinger

Dwight Le Merton Bolinger (August 18, 1907 – February 23, 1992) was an American linguist and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Focus (linguistics)

In linguistics, focus (abbreviated) is a grammatical category that conveys which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information.

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Generalized quantifier

In formal semantics, a generalized quantifier (GQ) is an expression that denotes a set of sets.

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Goidelic languages

The Goidelic or Gaelic languages (teangacha Gaelacha; cànanan Goidhealach; çhengaghyn Gaelgagh) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.

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Hiberno-English

Hiberno-English or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of English dialects native to Ireland, here including the whole island: both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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Highland English

Highland English (Hieland Inglis, Beurla na Gaidhealtachd) is the variety of Scottish English spoken by many in Gaelic-speaking areas and the Hebrides.

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Interrogative word

An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how.

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Intonation (linguistics)

In linguistics, intonation is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal the illocutionary act performed by a sentence, or to regulate the flow of discourse.

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Irish language

Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.

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Joan Bresnan

Joan Wanda Bresnan FBA (born August 22, 1945) is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities Emerita at Stanford University.

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Judy Delin

Judith Lesley (Judy) Delin is a language expert with an academic background in linguistics who is currently Partner at Doctrine Ltd, a London-based language and information design company.

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Manx language

Manx (Gaelg or Gailck, or), also known as Manx Gaelic, is a Gaelic language of the insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, itself a branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Michael Halliday

Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M. A. K. Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model of language.

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Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.

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Noun phrase

A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun.

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OmniScriptum

Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Phrase structure rules

Phrase structure rules are a type of rewrite rule used to describe a given language's syntax and are closely associated with the early stages of transformational grammar, proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1957.

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Predicate (grammar)

The term predicate is used in two ways in linguistics and its subfields.

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Pro-form

In linguistics, a pro-form is a type of function word or expression that stands in for (expresses the same content as) another word, phrase, clause or sentence where the meaning is recoverable from the context.

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Pronoun

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.

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Question

A question is an utterance which serves as a request for information. Cleft sentence and question are sentences by type.

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Relative clause

A relative clause is a clause that modifies a noun or noun phrase and uses some grammatical device to indicate that one of the arguments in the relative clause refers to the noun or noun phrase.

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Rosanna Sornicola

Rosanna Sornicola (born February 1953) is an Italian linguist specializing in typology, Latin and Romance linguistics.

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Scots language

ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.

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Scottish English

Scottish English (Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English (SSE). Scottish Standard English may be defined as "the characteristic speech of the professional class and the accepted norm in schools".

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Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic (endonym: Gàidhlig), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland.

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Sentence clause structure

In grammar, sentence and clause structure, commonly known as sentence composition, is the classification of sentences based on the number and kind of clauses in their syntactic structure. Cleft sentence and sentence clause structure are sentences by type.

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Spoken language

A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds or (depending on one's definition) manual gestures, as opposed to a written language.

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Topicalization

Topicalization is a mechanism of syntax that establishes an expression as the sentence or clause topic by having it appear at the front of the sentence or clause (as opposed to in a canonical position later in the sentence). Cleft sentence and Topicalization are word order.

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Word order

In linguistics, word order (also known as linear order) is the order of the syntactic constituents of a language.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleft_sentence

Also known as Cleft construction, Clefted, Clefting, Clefting (linguistics), Pseudocleft, Pseudocleft sentence.

Cleft sentence, the Glossary

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