Embedded Root Phenomena

The movement analysis of temporal adverbial clauses

“…Argument fronting like that illustrated in (13b) is classified as a Main Clause Phenomenon (MCP) or a root transformation (Emonds 1970(Emonds , 1976(Emonds , 2004Hooper & Thompson 1973), because this type of fronting is restricted to main clauses and a subset of embedded clauses (see Heycock 2006 for a recent survey of the relevant subset). Argument fronting like that illustrated in (13b) is classified as a Main Clause Phenomenon (MCP) or a root transformation (Emonds 1970(Emonds , 1976(Emonds , 2004Hooper & Thompson 1973), because this type of fronting is restricted to main clauses and a subset of embedded clauses (see Heycock 2006 for a recent survey of the relevant subset).…”

“…As discussed by Emonds (1970Emonds ( , 1976Emonds ( , 2004, Hooper & Thompson (1973), Maki et al (1999) and Heycock (2006), among others, nonassertive complement clauses (see Hooper & Thompson 1973;Haegeman 2006b), and in particular complements of factive predicates, resist MCP, at least for many speakers. 21 In (40a) the complement clause of regret resists argument fronting; in (40b) VP preposing is illicit in the clause associated with bother; in (40c) the complement of forget is incompatible with preposing around be, and in (40d) the complement clause of surprise resists negative inversion.…”

On the distribution and illocution of V2 in Scandinavian that-clauses

“…see e.g. Andersson (1975), Green (1976), den Besten (1977den Besten ( /1983, Wechsler (1991), Holmberg and Platzack (1995), Haegeman (2006), Heycock (2006), Truckenbrodt (2006), Julien (2006Julien ( , 2007, and Brandtler (2009). The relevant hypothesis may be loosely formulated as in (2).…”

Notes on Long Adverbial Fronting in English and the Left Periphery

“…A third property distinguishing adjunct fronting and argument fronting that has perhaps not so often been signaled in the current literature is that while English fronted arguments are typically restricted to root clauses or clauses with root behavior (Emonds 1970, Rutherford 1970, Hooper and Thompson 1973, Andersson 1975, Green 1976, Haegeman 1984a,b, 2001, 2002a,c, Maki, Kaiser, and Ochi 1999, Heycock 2002, fronted adjuncts do not have this restriction.…”