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Raised object vs. Subordinate subject (I didn't want 'Kim' mistreating my cat)

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What is the difference in a constituent and a phrase?

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Parallel coordination failures

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The Meaning <=> Text Theory (MTT)

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Xp-pro-v word order in middle english

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Does anyone know the history of the infinitive?

syntax english grammar verbs word-formation

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Context-Free grammars and Language

syntax terminology computational-linguistics grammar

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Connections between categories of type logical grammar and categories of combinatory categorial grammar?

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Formal semantics of subordinate clauses (compound sentences) - in categorial and type logical grammars?

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Conjunctive NPs in Montague Grammars

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If the that-trace effect is not learnable and thus must be biologically built in, how can speakers of French or Irish violate it?

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position of t[i] — * What[j] did Ann wonder who[i] would eat t[i] t[j]?

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