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Locative Small Clause with Ad anchor: Tnx0nx1ARB
- Description:
- These trees are not anchored by verbs, but by adverbs
that are part of locative adverbial phrases. Locatives are explained
in much greater detail in the section on the locative modifier trees
(see section 19.6). The only remarkable aspect of this tree
family is the wh-moved locative tree, W1nx0nx1ARB, shown in
Figure 6.44. This is the only tree family with this type of
transformation, in which the entire adverbial phrase is wh-moved but not all
elements are replaced by wh items (as in how many city blocks away is the record store?). Locatives that consist of just the locative adverb
or the locative adverb and a degree adverb (see Section 19.6 for
details) are treated as exhaustive PPs and therefore select that tree
family (Section 6.28) when used predicatively. For an
extensive description of small clauses, see
Section 9.3. 26 adverbs select this tree family.
- Examples:
- ahead, offshore, behind
the crash is three blocks ahead
the naval battle was many kilometers offshore
how many blocks behind was Max?
- Declarative tree:
- See Figure 6.43.
Figure:
Declarative Locative Adverbial Small Clause Tree: nx0nx1ARB
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Figure:
Wh-moved Locative Small Clause Tree: W1nx0nx1ARB
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- Other available trees:
- wh-moved subject, relative clause on subject
with and without comp, wh-moved locative, imperative, NP gerund.
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1998-09-14