Heavy NP shift is an operation that involves re-ordering (shifting) a "heavy" noun phrase (NP) to a position to the right of its canonical position under...

4b., where heavy-NP shift has shifted the NP to the right, as soon as "to" is uttered the listener knows that the VP must contain the NP and a PP. In...

acknowledged type of shifting is heavy NP shift, but shifting involving a heavy NP is just one manifestation of the shifting mechanism. Shifting occurs in most...

Exceptional case-marking Existential clauses Expletives Extraposition Gapping Heavy NP shift Inverse copula sentences Movement paradoxes Negative inversion Non-configurational...

terms describing syntactic phenomena, including copula switch, gapping, heavy NP shift, myopia, the penthouse principle, pied piping, scrambling, siamese sentences...

structure grammar Generative semantics Head-driven phrase structure grammar Heavy NP shift Jerzy Kuryłowicz Lexical functional grammar Minimalist program Parasitic...

Franklin (2009-10-01). "Learning to order words: A connectionist model of heavy NP shift and accessibility effects in Japanese and English". Journal of Memory...

be generated by the same mechanisms that underlie extraposition and heavy-NP shift. An alternative analysis of subject–verb inversion rejects the existence...

spectrum, are shifted into the infrared and thus heavy water does not absorb red light. No physical properties are listed for "pure" semi-heavy water because...

the NP/NV-231 or NP-207 transfer cases introduced along with the Jeep Cherokee (XJ) in 1984. The system offers a chain-driven, aluminum, "shift-on-the-fly"...