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Raising to Subject in Syntax Explained by LadyBlackKent is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document summarizes material covered on Raising to Subject vs. Subject Control. It discusses: 1) Predicates and arguments, including internal vs. external arguments. Verbs like "melt" have one internal and one external argument. 2) Raising-to-subject predicates, which are one-place predicates that take a finite-clause Theme as their only argument (e.g. "seem", "appear"). These predicates appear to assign their subject position to the subject of the embedded clause via "Raising to Subject". 3) Key to
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- LadyBlackKent
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- EN