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Sentences (h) TRANSPOSITION: It is possible for whole clauses to be fronted in English: 1 a) [For the rain to come now] would be a disaster. . . is a transposed form of .... l b) It would be a disaster for the rain to come now. 2a) [That orchids grow on Guadalcanal] is well known. ... is a transposed form of .... 2b) It is well known that orchids grow on Guadalcanal. The interpretation of such structures requires that users see the whole transposed clause as subject of the main verb (i.e. of BE in this case). This imposes a heavy processing burden. Clefts (the it form in the b) sentences) have their own problems of course (see Clefts below). (from academia.edu/1544285/Evaluating_Linguistic_Difficulty )
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:52:37 +0000

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