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Raising (syntax)

In linguistics, raising constructions involve the movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause. A raising predicate/verb appears with a syntactic argument that is not its semantic argument but rather the semantic argument of an embedded predicate. In other words, the sentence is expressing something about a…

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LinguisticsMovementArgumentSubordinate clauseMain clause
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Representing raising

Phrase structure grammarDependency grammarObject pronoun
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Alternation with it-extraposition

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Raising-to-subject verbs vs. auxiliary verbs

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Raising vs. control

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Raising (syntax)

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Avg. degree1.93
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raising predicates verbs predicate control raising-to-subject subject verb appear grammar semantic raising-to-object dependent press syntactic types auxiliary argument object syntax

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