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Three Investigations of Extraction (Current Studies in Linguistics) - Hardcover

Postal, Paul M.

 
9780262161794: Three Investigations of Extraction (Current Studies in Linguistics)

Synopsis

In this technical monograph, Paul Postal deals with several issues that inexplicably have been treated only marginally in the development of current linguistic theorizing. He focuses on three problems in syntactic theory that are connected to "extraction" -- the occurrence of an element in a distinguished position distinct from its unmarked locus in simple clauses. He examines a largely ignored body of systematic contrasts among known extraction types, the status of the Coordinate Structure Constraint, and the phenomenon of Right Node Raising.

Current Studies in Linguistics 29

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About the Author

Paul M. Postal is Research Professor in the Department of Linguistics at New York University.

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