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IN last week's column, we looked at how inverted sentences allow us to abandon the normal subject-verb-complement (S-V/C) sequence so we can deliver the verb or its complement wherever we feel it can ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Italian sentences which appear to lack propositional arguments of verbs are shown to be base-generated without these verb complements. This ...

WE have already taken up how inverted sentences depart from the normal sentence-verb-complement pattern (S-V/C) to put the verb or its complement wherever it can do its work best in the sentence, and ...