Resumen de Pseudoclefts

Zeljko Boskovic

• This paper focuses on the syntax of specificational pseudoclefts. To account for the fact that in spite of the apparent lack of c-command, elements in the wh-clause of specificational pseudoclefts are able to enter into connectivity relations that require c-command with the elements in the focus phrase, including the antecedent-trace relation in certain well-defined cases, I argue that the focused phrase moves in LF into the who-clause. The movement is shown to have broad theoretical consequences and to provide a uniform account of a number of othewise puzzling properties of pseudoclefts, including several differences between regular specificational, inverted specificational, and predicational pseudoclefts.