Word formation is syntactic: Raising in nominalizations

According to Chomsky (1970), raising to subject and raising to object may not take place inside nominalizations. This claim has largely been accepted as fact ever since. For instance, Newmeyer (2009) repeats the claim as crucial evidence for the Lexicalist Hypothesis, the view that word formation ta...

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Main Author: Benjamin T. Bruening
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-09-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/470