When are adjectives raisers? Tough to get it

This article deals with some unsolved problems raised by tough-adjectives in Romance languages. We present some new data from some Romance languages (Romanian, French, Italian) supporting a raising analysis, and we argue that in these languages, unlike in English, infinitivals in tough-constructions...

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Main Authors: Ion Giurgea, Elena Soare
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2007-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/when_are_adjectives_raisers_tough_to_get_it