Unfree variation again

Announcement of a talk at Stanford this coming Tuesday, with abstract: Investigating a Syntactic Analysis:  Revisiting Raising-to-Subject Scott Grimm, Stanford University Verbs such as “seem’” or “appear’” allow an alternation between infinitival and finite sentential complements.  An example typical of those considered in the literature is given in (1) (Davies and Dubinsky 2004). (1a) Barnett … Continue reading Unfree variation again