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Peer reviewedLangacker, Ronald W. – Language, 1995
An account of the phenomena that transformational syntax handled by means of "raising" is formulated in the context of cognitive grammar. Raising is analyzed as a special case of the metonymy that relational expressions exhibit in regard to their choice of overtly coded arguments. The transparency of these constructions is explained. (83…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Linguistic Theory, Phrase Structure, Semantics
