抄録
This paper presents an analysis of specificational pseudoclefts in English in the current framework of minimalism. Of the two main properties of pseudoclefts, frozenness is explained, based on the assumption that the Topic clause is positioned in CP-Spec and the Focus phrase is adjoined to VP. Connectivity effects of specificational pseudoclefts follow from the assumption that what in the Topic clause is coindexed with the Focus phrase. Interacting with natural assumptions about interpretation of a focus, the assumptions above explain more complicated properties such as the strict linear order among constituents. The analysis also extends to account for peculiar properties of reverse pseudoclefts.
