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Subject Raising Constructions in English

Modern Studies in English Language & Literature, 2020
The aim of the present study is to investigate two types of subject raising constructions: subject-to-subject raising and subject-to-object raising. In this paper, the empirical evidence and the motivation of subject raising are discussed in depth. This study suggests the Fin[±FIN] Driven EPP Hypothesis as an EPP Model utilizing the Push-and/or-Pull ...
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Raising to Subject

1999
A-movement is a fundamental operation in GB theory, and even more so in standard minimalism. In this chapter we argue that A-movement cannot exist. This claim finds its basis in the hypothesis that case is the syntactic referent for the system of thematic mapping, which is located at the LF interface.
Ad Neeleman, Fred Weerman
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Providing support and raising awareness of a delicate subject

British Journal of Nursing, 2021
Clare Akers, Clinical Nurse Practitioner, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, was runner up in the urology nurse of the year category in the BJN Awards 2020
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Evidence for Subject Raising In Japanese

Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 1972
This discussion considers the process of subject raising, which takes the constituent subject out of the complement clause and makes it a constituent of the matrix clause and the occurrence of this process in Japanese and in other subject-object-verb (SOV) languages. The first part of the paper demonstrates why subject raising is not a common syntactic
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Verb raising and subject inversion in Bantu relatives

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 1999
Verb raising and subject inversion have long been topics of theoretical linguistic interest in Romance and Germanic languages, amongst others. Bantu languages also exhibit verb raising and subject inversion, though there has been no comprehensive investigation of these phenomena, nor an explanation of crosslinguistic differences.
KATHERINE DEMUTH, CAROLYN HARFORD
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Subject-to-object raising in Latin?

Lingua, 1979
Abstract With respect to the Latin Accusativus-cum-Infinitivo construction two conflicting proposals have been made. In the traditional one the AcI is viewed as originating from a pattern with a nominal object, whereas in a recent Transformational proposal the accusative nominal is described as a Raised Object.
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Instrumental straight-leg raising: results in healthy subjects.

Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 1993
The instrumental performance of Lasègue's test (instrumental straight-leg raising) provides information about the extensibility, elasticity, and electrical activity of hamstrings and back muscles and about pelvic rotation. Because relevant data on these variables are not known in literature, instrumental straight-leg raising was performed in healthy ...
GOEKEN, LN, HOF, AL
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Subjective Assessment of Wet-raised Woollen Fabric

Journal of the Textile Institute, 1991
An investigation is reported in which a panel of judges, using visual and tactile skills, assessed a series of milled and wet-raised fabrics for smoothness, softness, and stiffness. It was found that fabric smoothness and softness were clearly related to the amount or raise given to the fabrics.
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Impaired Comprehension of Raising-to-Subject Constructions in Parkinson's Disease

Brain and Language, 1999
This paper describes an experiment which shows that roughly half of nondemented patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have impaired comprehension of subject-to-subject and object-to-subject raising constructions (e.g., Susan seems to Bill to be tall and Susan is hard for Bill to catch), but have normal comprehension of the counterpart constructions (e.
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