TAG and raising in VSO languages
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The derivation of unbounded Subject-to-Subject Raising in languages like English is a problem particularly elegantly treated by Tree Adjoining Grammar. The adjoining operation inserts auxiliary trees headed by raising verbs between the subject in SpecIP and the root verb, distancing the subject from its original local relationshlp with the root verb and producing a final multi-clausal structure with the subject in the final subject position in the matrix clause.
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