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Extraposition is a
mechanism of
syntax that
alters word
order in such a
manner that a
relatively "heavy"
constituent appears to the
right of its canonical...
- it-
extraposition, e.g. a. Tom
seems to have won the race. b. It
seems that Tom won the race. – Raising-to-subject verb seem
occurs with it-
extraposition...
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studied of
these being topicalization, wh-fronting, scrambling, and
extraposition.
Natural languages vary with
respect to the
types of discontinuities...
- sentence: John
seems to love coffee.)
Dummy it can also be
found in
extraposition constructions in English, such as the following: It was
known to all...
- scrambling. The
position of das also
cannot be
addressed in
terms of
extraposition,
since extraposed constituents are
relatively heavy, much
heavier than...
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extensions have been proposed.
Pereira himself proposed an
extension called extraposition grammars (XGs). This
formalism was
intended in part to make it easier...
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person pronouns for formality. This
flexibility allows Catalan to use
extraposition extensively, much more than
French or Spanish. Thus,
Catalan can have...
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bothered me that she did not call. -
Clause as postcedent,
example of it-
extraposition d. Two
violinists were there, at the party. -
Prepositional phrase as...
- of
explaining discontinuities such as wh-fronting, topicalization,
extraposition, scrambling, inversion, and shifting: a. John has told
Peter that Mary...
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dependency grammar accounts of topicalization, wh-fronting, scrambling, and
extraposition are
mostly absent from many
established DG frameworks. This situation...
