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The subject to subject raising rule in Slovene
Linguistica, 1985 The aim of the present article is to present evidence in support of the claim that the rule which promotes the subject NP of the embedded subject clause to the position of the ma trix subject (subject raising, SSR)is a viable rule in Slo vene ...
Marija Bolta
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On finite subject-to-object raising in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 In this paper, we analyze inflected complements of perceptive, causative and permissive verbs in which the null subject is obligatorily co-referent with the matrix object antecedent.
Peter Herbeck
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Problems of Subject Raising Constructions among Yoruba ESL Learners
Yoruba Studies Review, 2022 Raising is an upward movement that concerns structures whose derivation involves copy, merger, and deletion and movement operations in the Minimalist Program.
Razaq Akolawole Raheem
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Subject Raising in Chinese Modal Auxiliary Verb Constructions: A-movement or A′-movement?
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2022 Subject raising in Chinese modal auxiliary verb constructions can be either A-movement or A′-movement. Modal auxiliary verbs such as hui and yao can take a nonfinite TP complement which cannot value the abstract case of the embedded subject.
Hu Bo, Chen Hong
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The rise of lexical subjects in English covert infinitives
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 This paper explores subjectness of the so-called covert infinitives in English. Control and raising-to-subject infinitives are known to have a covert or null subject; hence they are known as the covert infinitives.
Lemohang Hilda Tjabaka
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Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Social Sciences, 2023 The aim of the study is to monitor the changes in social problems presented in Friday sermons during the periods of cultural change and social networking.
Khalid Alshereeda, Fatimah Al-Suhaibani
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E-REA, 2012 This article aims at studying verbs of reporting and opinion which can be used in the passive with two different structures : one with subject raising , the other with extraposition of a that-clause .
Catherine DELESSE
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French missing object constructions
Glossa, 2022 This paper discusses a class of French à-infinitival constructions, where the missing direct object corresponds to an external argument, either being the antecedent noun in an attributive use, or else a raised argument in a subject or object predication ...
Berthold Crysmann +1 more
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Empty operator raising in Kitharaka
Studies in African Linguistics, 1997 The Kenyan Bantu language Kitharaka (E.54) has a biclausal construction in which a verb with an athematic subject takes a finite complement. A referential NP in the matrix subject position may acquire its thematic role through linkage with an argument at
Carolyn Harford
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litic Climbing and Null Subject Languages
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2002 The aim of this paper is to derive Clitic Climbing from restructuring together with the Null Subject property. Data are drawn mainly from Catalan. I propose a biclausal analysis for restructuring constructions in which clitic climbing (like any clitic ...
Jaume Solà
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