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An NP-Movement Account of Tough Constructions.
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Reider, Michael – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996
This paper presents an alternative analysis of tough constructions for N. Chomsky's 1981 wh-movement analysis of tough constructions. To replace Chomsky's solution and to obviate the need for generalized transformations in Government-Binding (GB) theory, an alternative analysis is proposed in which the tough subject originates as an embedded…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)