0 a sentence that is divided into two clauses in order to show which information is new
Example (17d) shows pure actually used in a cleft sentence.
We suggest that cleft sentences are instances of this type.
The constructions most often associated with open propositions are cleft sentences, gapped, preposed, and inverted ones.
The description is sometimes backed up by statistical data, as in the analysis of pronoun retention and wedropping in subject and direct object relativization (184) and in cleft sentences (196).
The remaining portions of the cleft sentences in (1) and (2) are noun phrases that contain headless relative clauses.
Structures unambiguously identifiable as cleft sentences are used.
On deriving cleft sentences from pseudo-cleft sentences.
