The English Cleft Construction as a Focus Phrase

Kiss, Katalin É.

doi:10.1075/cilt.180.14kis

In:Boundaries of Morphology and Syntax
Edited by Lunella Mereu
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 180] 1999
► pp. 217–230

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The English Cleft Construction as a Focus Phrase

Katalin É. Kiss

Published online: 15 June 1999

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.180.14kis

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