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pseudocleft

pseudocleft adjective: resembling or relating to a cleft sentence.

Adjective

pseudocleft (not comparable)

  1. Resembling or relating to a cleft sentence.
    • 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

Origin of pseudocleft

From pseudo- + cleft.

Questions about pseudocleft

What does pseudocleft mean?
Pseudocleft means resembling or relating to a cleft sentence.
What part of speech is pseudocleft?
Pseudocleft is an adjective.

Words near pseudocleft in the dictionary

  1. pseudoclassicism
  2. pseudoclassicisms
  3. pseudoclassics
  4. pseudocleavage
  5. pseudocleavages
  6. pseudocleft
  7. pseudoclefting
  8. pseudoclerical
  9. pseudoclimacograptid
  10. pseudoclinical
  11. pseudoclonality

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