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ON THE ISSUE OF CLEFT SENTENCES WITH THE INITIAL QUESTION WORD IN MODERN ENGLISH

Irina Vladimirovna Pushinina
Moscow State Pedagogical University


Submitted: March 7, 2017
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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