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There is a lot of literature available in the field of transformational grammar on how to analyze cleft sentences. Unfortunately, however, the previous approaches, which are mainly limited to give pure syntactic explanations for the phenomena, leave many of the problems unexplained.
The purpose of this paper is to provide a discourse-functional account of the cleft constructions with the basic assumption that language is a communicative device and a representation of human behavior. Throughout this paper, it is shown that it is necessary to go beyond sentence level in the examination of linguistic phenomena such as cleft constructions to account for the reality of language use in actual discourse.