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A Difficulty Analysis of Cleft Sentences
Published 2013-10-01“…This empirical study was investigated to define how difficult the clefts sentences for the EFL freshman students and to describe the difficulty levels of types of cleft sentences. …”
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Cleft sentences: form, function, and translation
Published 2009“…Although cleft sentences are possible constructions in both English and German, they are far more frequent in English texts. …”
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Brazilian Portuguese cleft sentences in a functionalist framework
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Invariable copula in inverted cleft sentences: an example of grammaticalization?
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Intomation of cleft sentences in Brazilian Portuguese and the syntax-phonology interface
Published 2012-02-01Subjects: Get full text
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The Features of the Expression of the Category of Focus in the Cleft Sentence of the English Language
Published 2023-12-01“… <p>The paper addresses the interaction of the focus category and the semantic and syntactic aspects of the cleft sentence of the English language. The features of the focus in a cleft sentence are discussed, taking into account the relationship between the information structure and the category of definiteness-indefiniteness. …”
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Cataphoric use of serbian impersonal genderless pronouns ovo, to, ono in cleft sentences
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Negation of subject with nominal modifiers in Sesotho
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The vagaries of subject it: can it serve as a style marker?
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Textual roles of two forms of rhematic subjects: initial rhematic subjects vs. subjects rhematized by it-clefts
Published 2015-09-01Subjects: Get full text
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The Influence of Focus Marking on Pronoun Resolution in Dialogue Context
Published 2021-07-01Subjects: Get full text
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Función informacional de las escisiones en español
Published 2014-05-01Subjects: Get full text
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La frase scissa nell’insegnamento dell’italiano per gli studenti di scienze umanistiche
Published 2015-12-01Subjects: “…cleft sentences, academic texts, Italian as a foreign language for specific purposes, task-based teaching of an FL, learning by doing…”
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[FOC + Que] constructions in Libolo Portuguese
Published 2014-07-01“…Based on the typology of cleft sentences in Portuguese, this study presents the strategies applied in the [Foc+Que] constructions in Portuguese spoken in Libolo (LBP), Angola. …”
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Reflections on some syntactical processes and their communicative implications in two short stories written by Julia Álvarez : My English and A Genetics of Justice
Published 2003-11-01“…The main purpose of this article is to show that presenting ideas using certain syntactical structures in English (existential sentences, extraposition, pseudo-cleft sentences, passive, cleft sentences, reversed pseudo cleft and left dislocation) is not at random because those structures have specific communicative implications, as we will see when we analyse the examples in the two short stories we have chosen.…”
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Aspects of the focus category in Angolan Portuguese
Published 2011-12-01“…Taking as a starting point a morphosyntax/discursive interface, we consider cleft and pseudo cleft sentences as being focus carrying, in that they present a specificational reading, containing an obligatory predication characteristic of the focussed constituent. …”
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