A Monostratal Treatment of It Extraposition without Lexical Rules
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This paper deals with alternations of the type (1) That Sandy snores bothers Kim. (2) It bothers Kim that Sandy snores. In the monostratal framework of HPSG this alternation is described in terms of a lexical rule. The starting point is the lexical entry for the use of bothers in
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