"Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations."
—Edward Sapir, Language (1921)
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Pronoun it is the subject Besides applying to infinitive clauses, the grammatical rule of extraposition also applies to finite complement clauses, of which there are two […]
April 20, 2020
"Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations."
—Edward Sapir, Language (1921)
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"Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations."
—Edward Sapir, Language (1921)
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In the following examples, the head-initialized antecedent (italicized) has a complementizer (bolded) that is the syntactic head of a full clause. The complementizer is also an object […]
April 20, 2020
"Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations."
—Edward Sapir, Language (1921)
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