Practical Grammar 9: Difference between revisions

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-== Raising and Control ==
-In this unit, we will extend the grammar to license sentences with verbs like 'try' and 'seems' which have interesting properties.
-''try (Control verb)''
-(1) Ingrid tried to buy olives.
-''seem(Raising verb)''
-(2) Ingrid seemed to buy olives.
-Extended Coherence Condition [non-final version] (p. 138)
-* All governable functions present in an f-structure must occur in the value of a local PRED feature.
-* All functions that have a PRED value must have a theta role.

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