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Getting ‘tough’ with Wh- Movement1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Michael A. Jones
Michael A. Jones
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University of Essex
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This paper is concerned with the analysis of sentences such as (1) in terms of the Wh- Movement transformation as proposed in Chomsky (1977: 102–110) and, in a revised form, in Chomsky (1981: 308–314):

(1) John is easy to please.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 1983 , pp. 129 - 159
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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