Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Tue, 14 Jul 92 16:12 EDT Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA19265; Tue, 14 Jul 92 14:34:22 EDT Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA06826; Tue, 14 Jul 92 14:09:39 -0400 Message-Id: <9207141809.AA06826@relay1.UU.NET> Received: from PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU by pucc.Princeton.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7799; Tue, 14 Jul 92 14:09:05 EDT Received: by PUCC (Mailer R2.08 ptf034) id 3172; Tue, 14 Jul 92 13:57:05 EDT Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1992 18:24:56 +0100 Reply-To: And Rosta Sender: Lojban list From: And Rosta Subject: clefting & raising X-To: lojban@cuvma.BITNET To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Tue Jul 14 16:12:42 1992 X-From-Space-Address: cbmvax!uunet!CUVMB.BITNET!LOJBAN Just to avoid confusion, it should be noted that what Lojbanists term 'clefting', mainstream linguistics terms 'raising' (i.e. a syntactic argument of a verb in a lower clause is raised to become a syntactic argument of a verb in a higher clause). Clefting in English would be sentences like _It's him she loves_. Most syntactic analyses of raising endeavour to show that the raised item is syntactic argument of two verbs at the same time (e.g. _Sophy_ in _Sophy is believed to drink tea black_ is subject of _believed_ and of _drink_ (& is also object of _believed_, according to some)). As far as I am aware, this doesn't happen in Lojban (which uses resumptive pronouns instead), but it might have been a solution to the quandary of whether or not a placestructure should be 'cleft'. --- And