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raising: a standalone construct

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raising1 CONSTRUCTRaisingPOSTAL · ON RAISING

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Syntax

A subject surfaces in a higher clause

In syntax, raising is the construction in which an argument that belongs semantically to a lower (embedded) clause appears in a higher one, as in Mary seems to be happy, where Mary is understood as the subject of be happy but surfaces as the subject of seems. Postal's 1974 On raising argued for raising as a syntactic operation and distinguished it from superficially similar control constructions. The referent is the displacement of an argument out of a clause where the matrix predicate assigns it no semantic role, diagnosed by the behaviour of expletives, idioms, and selectional restrictions.[1]

Unit
An argument of a lower clause realised as a higher clause's subject or object
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Diagnosed by idiom chunks, expletive subjects, and the absence of an independent semantic role in the matrix clause, distinguishing raising from control

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References

  1. Postal, P. M. (1974). On raising: One rule of English grammar and its theoretical implications. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262160575

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