Tough movement
In formal syntax, tough movement refers to sentences in which the syntactic subject of the main verb is logically the object of an embedded non-finite verb. The following sentences illustrate tough movement. (1) This problem is tough to solve.(2) Chris is easy to please. The phenomenon was so named by Rosenbaum (1967) because prototypical example sentences like (1) involve the word tough. In these sentences, this problem is logically the object of solve, and Chris is logically the object of please. The sentences can therefore be paraphrased as: or and with the verb take: or fronted infinitive:
Wikipage disambiguates
Wikipage redirect
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
primaryTopic
Tough movement
In formal syntax, tough movement refers to sentences in which the syntactic subject of the main verb is logically the object of an embedded non-finite verb. The following sentences illustrate tough movement. (1) This problem is tough to solve.(2) Chris is easy to please. The phenomenon was so named by Rosenbaum (1967) because prototypical example sentences like (1) involve the word tough. In these sentences, this problem is logically the object of solve, and Chris is logically the object of please. The sentences can therefore be paraphrased as: or and with the verb take: or fronted infinitive:
has abstract
In formal syntax, tough moveme ...... n Lee's mattress is too lumpy.
@en
英語の形式的統語論において、tough構文 (英語: tou ...... 感情、価値判断を示す形容詞の後に不定詞が続く形で表現される。
@ja
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
Wikipage page ID
11,805,103
page length (characters) of wiki page
Wikipage revision ID
1,007,505,252
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
comment
In formal syntax, tough moveme ...... b take: or fronted infinitive:
@en
英語の形式的統語論において、tough構文 (英語: tou ...... 感情、価値判断を示す形容詞の後に不定詞が続く形で表現される。
@ja
label
Tough movement
@en
Tough構文
@ja