ON THE ISSUE OF CLEFT SENTENCES WITH THE INITIAL QUESTION WORD IN MODERN ENGLISH
Pushinina Irina Vladimirovna
Moscow State Pedagogical University
Abstract. The article is devoted to one of the types of cleft sentences referred to in modern linguistic literature as the cleft sentence with a question word (WH-CS), the pseudo-cleft sentence, or WH-Cleft. Particular attention is paid to structural-semantic characteristics of this type of sentences, their role in the text is described.
Key words and phrases: расщепленное предложение, пропозиция, компонент расщепления, псевдо-расщепленное предложение, интерференция, cleft sentence, proposition, cleft component, pseudo-cleft sentence, interference
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