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Peer reviewedLangacker, Ronald W. – Language, 1974
This paper offers a functional explanation for the existence and for the special properties of movement rules in natural languages. The hypothesis is advanced that raising, lowering, and fronting rules all serve the function of increasing the prominence of objective content in surface structure. (CK)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Generative Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
