Getting ‘tough’ withWh- Movement

1 March 1983

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Linguistics

Vol. 19 (1) , 129-159
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700007489

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the analysis of sentences such as (1) in terms of theWh- Movement transformation as proposed in Chomsky (1977: 102–110) and, in a revised form, in Chomsky (1981: 308–314):(1) John is easy to please.

Keywords

TOUGH
PLEASE
SENTENCES
JOHN
CHOMSKY
MOVEMENT THIS PAPER
MOVEMENT TRANSFORMATION
REVISED FORM

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