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Predicate-Clefting

French translation: clivage du prédicat

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English term or phrase:Predicate-Clefting
French translation:clivage du prédicat
Entered by: Yolanda Broad

10:46 Jul 2, 2003
English to French translations [Non-PRO]
English term or phrase: Predicate-Clefting
almost all Atlantic creoles have Predicate-Clefting, as in duh [dc] talk he duh talk, illustrated here from Gullah and meaning ‘he is/was really talking’
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clivage du predicat
Explanation:
et isolé deux de ces traits comme particulièrement significatifs, les verbes sériels
(exemple: rété-tonbé) et le clivage du prédicat (sé pas dé bel li ...
www.palli.ch/~kapeskreyol/travaux/ espacecreole/syntaxe.htm - 21k - En cache - Pages similaires

Re: Clivage verbal en Afrique occidentale (aboh)
... 1992) Structure syntaxique des clivee en Fon, The Journal of West African Languages
22: 63-95 (1993) Syantaxe et semantique du clivage du predicat en fongbe ...
www.unice.fr/CRI/ml/html/comparlingafric/ 1998/msg00012.html - 6k


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Note added at 2003-07-02 10:49:55 (GMT)
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ubject Field(s)
  – Grammar
Subject Field(s)
  – Grammaire
 
clefting Source CORRECT

cleft formation Source
CORRECT

cleft-sentence formation
Source CORRECT

clivage Source CORRECT,
MASC

OBS – The formation of a
sentence of the form \"It is
(was, would, be, etc.) X that
Y\", which would correspond
to a sentence constructed in
a more conventional manner.
For example, clefting would
produce a sentence like \"It is
chocolate that John likes\",
corresponding to the
sentence \"John likes
chocolate\". Source

CONT – En grammaire
générative, le clivage est une
opération d\'enchâssement de
relative accompagné de
l\'extraction d\'un des
syntagmes nominaux de
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GILLES MEUNIER
France
Local time: 05:20
Grading comment
thank you for your help. I would have never found it alone!
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4 +1clivage du predicat
GILLES MEUNIER


  

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clivage du predicat


Explanation:
et isolé deux de ces traits comme particulièrement significatifs, les verbes sériels
(exemple: rété-tonbé) et le clivage du prédicat (sé pas dé bel li ...
www.palli.ch/~kapeskreyol/travaux/ espacecreole/syntaxe.htm - 21k - En cache - Pages similaires

Re: Clivage verbal en Afrique occidentale (aboh)
... 1992) Structure syntaxique des clivee en Fon, The Journal of West African Languages
22: 63-95 (1993) Syantaxe et semantique du clivage du predicat en fongbe ...
www.unice.fr/CRI/ml/html/comparlingafric/ 1998/msg00012.html - 6k


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Note added at 2003-07-02 10:49:55 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

ubject Field(s)
  – Grammar
Subject Field(s)
  – Grammaire
 
clefting Source CORRECT

cleft formation Source
CORRECT

cleft-sentence formation
Source CORRECT

clivage Source CORRECT,
MASC

OBS – The formation of a
sentence of the form \"It is
(was, would, be, etc.) X that
Y\", which would correspond
to a sentence constructed in
a more conventional manner.
For example, clefting would
produce a sentence like \"It is
chocolate that John likes\",
corresponding to the
sentence \"John likes
chocolate\". Source

CONT – En grammaire
générative, le clivage est une
opération d\'enchâssement de
relative accompagné de
l\'extraction d\'un des
syntagmes nominaux de


GILLES MEUNIER
France
Local time: 05:20
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in pair: 75574
Grading comment
thank you for your help. I would have never found it alone!

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