An NP-movement Account of Tough Constructions

Chomsky's (1981) wh-movement analysis of tough constructions is inadequate when tough subjects involving internal [theta]-relations are considered--unless, as Jones (1983) observes, generalized transformations, abandoned long ago, are now reintroduced in the Government-Binding (GB) framework. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reider, Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1996-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/459