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Publication details [#4932]

Hornby, Peter A. 1971. The role of topic-comment in the recall of cleft and pseudo-cleft sentences. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 7 : 445–453.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cleft construction | memory | presupposition | pseudo-cleft construction | topic vs. comment

Annotation

H. shows that at least two aspects of sentence structure, viz. the topic-comment distinction and presupposition, are stored in memory independently of the particular surface structure of the sentence in question.