On the grammaticalization of the Assertion Structure: a view from Spanish*
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چکیده
It is well known that natural languages may syntactically encode the focus/presupposition divide; we refer to it as the assertion content of the sentence. One construction that overtly and unambiguously structures this aspect of the meaning of a sentence is the pseudo-cleft and, in particular, the so-called specificational pseudo-cleft (Higgins 1976), where the post-copula constituent specifies a property of the subject of the pre-copula wh-clause:
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