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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Extraposition"”.
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Extraposition and optionality: an investigation of information packaging in Paarl-Kaaps
… aims to investigate the phenomenon of extraposition, which is the displacement of constituents from their canonical position in the middle of the clause, to the right of the verb. Importantly, extraposition represents one area in which grammar seems to permit some optionality, as both …
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Movement of degree/degree of movement
… fronting (so sunny a day) and degree right extraposition (a day sunny enough). We argue that both processes have to do with the scope of the degree operator, namely, that degree fronting is a diagnostic of clausal scope of the degree operator, while right extraposition is overt QR to the …
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On expletives and the agreement-movement correlation
… I develop a novel analysis of the clausal-extraposition/CP-linking construction and the non-logical-if construction (Williams 1974).
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The linear limitations of syntactic derivations
… Chapter 6 argues that linear order constrains extraposition, and proposes an account of this phenomenon that addresses a number of puzzles about its distribution. Chapter 7 diverges from the theme of linearization to explore parasitic gaps in relative clauses, which connect to several results …
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Topicalisation of the noun phrase in colloquial Cairene Arabic
… applies to Adverbials, and backing rules such as Extraposition and Right Dislocation apply to Complement Sentences and raised NP's respectively to yield Sentence-initial Predicates. Obligatory/optional rules apply systematically to two different types of clause constituents which are S and SI. …
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A quantitative and qualitative analysis of competing motivations interacting in the placement of finite relative clauses in Hindi
… and German, especially on relative clause extraposition (Francis 2010; Francis & Michaelis 2011; Strunk 2010). This dissertation argues that regardless of the syntactic analysis of these constructions, i.e. movement or base-generation adjunction, speakers have three main possible …