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Publication details [#7745]
Prince, Ellen F. 1978. A comparison of WH-clefts and IT-clefts in discourse. Language 54 (4) : 883–906. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
An examination of natural discourse providing evidence against the claim that WH-clefts (such as 'What John lost was his keys') and IT-clefts (such as 'It was his keys that John lost') are interchangeable. The differences between the two sentence types are differences in presuppositions.