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Volume 5, Issue 2
  • ISSN 2589-1588
  • E-ISSN: 2589-1596

Abstract

Abstract

In this paper we provide an introduction to a set of tools for syntactic analysis based on graph theory, and apply them to the study of some properties of English constructions, more commonly known as or structures. We focus on puzzling extraction asymmetries between base-generated objects and ‘raised’ objects and on the interaction between and Right Wrap. We argue that a lexicalised derivational grammar with grammatical functions as primitives delivers empirically adequate analyses.

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