Abstract
This paper focuses on the forms of ambiguity in cleft and pseudocleft constructions. To account for the fact that the ambiguity –whichever it is- in cleft or pseudocleft sentences is only outwardly, I argue by means of two basic lines: semantic properties and pragmatic arguments. In addition, the opposition ‘referential / predicative’ proves to be decisive on this matter. Moreover, this work demonstrates that the be/ser verb of ‘discontinuos’ It-cleft sentences with that is not ambiguous but just one copulative verb.
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