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By F. R. Higgins

This paintings, first released in 1979, used to be a doctoral dissertation submitted to the dept of overseas Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of expertise on June twenty second 1973. The ostensible critical subject of this essay is a building that is commonly known as the "pseudo-cleft" building. This essay goals to supply an total photo of the development, and express why one other remedy of it can be crucial. This e-book can be of curiosity to these pursuing the subject of copular sentences.

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