| 单词 | cleft construction |
| 释义 | > as lemmascleft construction d. Linguistics (esp. Transformational Grammar). cleft sentence, a two-clause sentence derived by transformation from a single clause in order to emphasize a particular element of the clause, the resultant sentence starting with it is or another form of the verb to be (as ‘it is x that we want’ from ‘we want x’). Similarly, cleft construction. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [noun] > change of word order or position > specific types of movement or transformation cleft construction1937 wh-transformation1957 rank shift1961 rankshifting1965 fronting1966 pseudo-cleft1967 promotion1968 pseudo-clefting1970 tough movement1971 slifting1973 extraposing1976 1937 O. Jespersen Analyt. Syntax xxv. 83 (heading) Cleft Sentences... A fourth class of sentences beginning with it is. 1963 R. B. Lees in Zeitschr. f. Phonetik Sprachwissensch. XVI. 371 At least three different analyses have been proposed for the so-called ‘Cleft-sentence’ construction in English. 1976 Archivum Linguisticum 7 146 The mechanism of cleft construction can be used to predicate and bring into focus any of the grammatical (modal) functions: subject, object, adjunct. 1982 R. Quirk Style & Communication in Eng. Lang. i. 14 There is..the over-use of the cleft sentence to provide little-wanted focus upon time adverbials. < as lemmas |
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