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Freezing in it-clefts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Jutta M. Hartmann
Jutta M. Hartmann*
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Universität Tübingen
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Freezing is the cover term for the restriction on extraction from constituents in a derived position. The traditional Freezing cases are illustrated here with topicalization in (1a), heavy-NP shift in (1b), and extraposition in (1c).

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , November 2013 , pp. 487 - 496
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 2013

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