Thus, it is not the pseudocleft construction as a whole that results in the star on (1a). Rather, the problem is with the verb do that appears in the pseudocleft clause. This generalization has the virtue of differentiating the pseudoclefts in (1) from those in (2), since the latter lack any ∗My thanks to the participants in the Semantics II discussion section of April 10, 2001, for their help ...

Examples (1a-b) both consist of a grammatical subject (XP1) and its predicate (XP2) with a copula between them; they differ from each other only in the form of XP1. It is common to assume that only the construction in (1a) is categorized into the class of pseudoclefts (e.g., Higgins, 1979). But I follow Akmajian (1970) among others, who regards the construction in (1b) as a type of pseudocleft ...

Many linguists have observed the emergence of the nonstandard English construction instantiated by the following sentence: “Now the problem is // is that nobody’s going to invade anybody else’s boundaries”. In this pattern (which we will refer to as ISIS), a clausal complement is preceded by two finite forms of the copula, the first of which is typically prosodically prominent and followed by a...

The oral-facial-digital syndrome type 1 is characterized by following abnormalities: pseudocleft of the upper lip, tongue lobulation, hamartomata on the tongue, alveolar frenulae, and clefting of the soft palate. We report a 9-month-old girl who was referred to our clinic due to facial dysmorphology in addition to cleft palate and multiple masses on the tongue which resulted in feeding problems...

(1) a. What did Mary eat? b. Mary ate a pizza. c. Mary ate a pizza and a calzone. As an answer, we can think of (1b) as being ruled out by (1c), because (1c) is more exhaustive, in the sense that it contains additional true information. A number of researchers (e.g., Kuno 1972, Atlas & Levinson 1981, Horn 1981, Szabolcsi 1981, É. Kiss 1998) have noted that exhaustification effects are not limit...

This study investigated the effect of word order and age on the production and comprehension of pseudoclefts in L2 across two experiments. For each experiment 16 female students aged between 179 and 210 months were recruited from a secondary school. These students were divided into two groups based on their age range; one group for investigating the effect of word order and age on the productio...

We report the case of a 43-day-old boy with branchio-oculo-facial syndrome (BOFS) and congenital heart defect. On clinical examination, he presented growth retardation, epicanthal folds, small palpebral fissures, telecanthus, broadened nasal bridge, lip pseudocleft, micrognathia, dysplastic and posteriorly-rotated ears, branchial clefts, short and webbed neck, supernumerary nipple, hypotonia an...

In the early days of transformational grammar, it was recognized that the syntactic properties of pseudoclefts posed a challenge to the emerging theory. The problem is simple to state, at least in a preliminary form: Pseudoclefts exhibit the same patterns with respect to various syntactic constraints as the simple sentences that paraphrase them. We illustrate with the pairs in (1)–(3), which ex...

Crouzon's syndrome (CS) is a rare autosomal dominant condition with multiple mutations of the fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR2) gene, which accounts for 4.8% of all cases of craniosynostosis. It is characterized by premature closure of cranial sutures, cranial deformities, midface hypoplasia, relative mandibular prognathism, hypertelorism, proptosis, strabismus and short upper lip, crow...