Abstract
Abstract Based on a considerable number of examples drawn from twentieth century texts, this article gives a description of a third cleft construction (besides the it cleft and the what cleft), the if cleft sentence, which, though relatively numerous in occurrence, has been neglected or dealt with only marginally in the linguistic literature. The analysis focuses on three aspects, the structure of the if cleft sentence, a comparison with it and what clefts, and textual aspects.
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