This paper focuses on pseudo-clefting, a syntactic transformation rule (T-rule) frequently used in English to give focal and thematic prominence (cf. Lăcătușu, 2005: 77) to various structural constituents, be them phrases or clauses. As its name suggests, it is related…
SENTENCE-IDENTITY BUILDING: A SYNTACTIC RESOLUTION OF AMPHIBOLY CAUSED BY PREPOSITIONAL-PHRASE ATTACHMENT
Amphiboly is a matter of linguistic ambiguity, which, in its turn, is essentially related to the intractable natural issue of the disparity between what we can possibly think and what we can actually express through language. The papers on various…