pseudocleft

English

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ cleft

Adjective

pseudocleft (not comparable)

1. (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.

Related terms

• pseudoclefting