"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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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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Pronominalization is the use of a pronoun instead of a noun. Relativization is when a noun or noun phrase in an embedded sentence is deleted or […]
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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Complementizers include WH- words and expletives that, if, and whether, all of which can be used to form subject or object relative clauses. In the following […]
