| Name | Wh-Cleft Construction | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Semantic function of cxn | Highlight focused / new information to hearer. | ||
| Usage conditions | High falling intonation. | ||
| Slots | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Semantic role of slots | TOPIC | ||
| Syntactic function | Subj | V | Attr |
| Syntactic form | wh-clause | BE | NPAdjPPPV-ingto-INFwh-clause |
| Example | What I want is a little smile.TV-2012-Mentalist … and I hope who you want to be is better than me.TV-2016-Scandal What you want to be is on time for school.TV-2009-Medium What you want is to do good.TV-2016-MastersofSex What you want to know is whether I did it with one of them and which one.MOV-2007-Closing | ||