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  <Title>Sydney, July 2006. c(c)2006 Association for Computational Linguistics A Tree Adjoining Grammar Analysis of the Syntax and Semantics of It-Clefts</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we argue that in it-clefts as in It was Ohno who won, the cleft pronoun (it) and the cleft clause (who won) form a discontinuous syntactic constituent, and a semantic unit as a definite description, presenting arguments from Percus (1997) and Hedberg (2000). We propose a syntax of it-clefts using Tree-Local Multi-Component Tree Adjoining Grammar and a compositional semantics on the proposed syntax using Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammar.</Paragraph>
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