pseudocleft
English
Etymology
Adjective
pseudocleft (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Resembling or relating to a cleft sentence.
- 2006, Hans-Martin Gärtner, Paul S. Law, Joachim Sabel, Clause Structure And Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages (page 201)
- 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.
- 2006, Hans-Martin Gärtner, Paul S. Law, Joachim Sabel, Clause Structure And Adjuncts in Austronesian Languages (page 201)