cleft sentence

Noun

 * 1)  A complex sentence whose meaning could be expressed by a simple sentence, that has a dependent clause in front of the main clause, and that typically stresses a particular constituent.
 * 2) * 1978, Per-Kristian Halvorsen, The Syntax and Semantics of Cleft Constructions, Department of Linguistics,, page 28,
 * Quirk et al (1972) say about the cleft sentence that it is "...so called because it divides a single clause into two separate sections, each with its own verb".

Translations

 * French: phrase clivée
 * German: Spaltsatz
 * Hebrew: משפט מבוקע, קלפט
 * Irish: abairt scoilte
 * Italian: frase scissa
 * Japanese: 分裂文
 * Korean: 분열문