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Cleft Constructions in Linguistics by animarchesan2 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
1. Jespersen analyzed cleft sentences like "It is the wife that decides" in two different ways. In his early work, he analyzed them as transpositions of sentences like "The wife is what decides." In later work, he criticized this analysis and instead analyzed the relative clause as a "parenthetic clause" that is intonationally and syntactically joined to the preceding phrase. 2. Jespersen proposed analyzing the cleft construction as having a "lesser subject and verb" (the matrix clause) that is extraposed
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