Are There Cleft Sentences in French?

Clech-Darbon, Anne; Rebuschi, Georges; Rialland, Annie

doi:10.1075/la.24.04cle

In:The Grammar of Focus
Edited by Georges Rebuschi and Laurice Tuller
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 24] 1999
► pp. 83–118

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Are There Cleft Sentences in French?

Anne Clech-Darbon

Georges Rebuschi

Annie Rialland

Published online: 15 November 1999

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.24.04cle

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