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Examples of fronted

fronted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Both approaches are problematic since they cannot explain why particles and idiom parts can be fronted.
Coronals that condition fronting are produced with a fronted tongue body, while coronals that condition retraction are produced with a back tongue body.
These cases had mainly to do with source sentences containing relative or cleft clauses and fronted or dislocated material.
This implies that this complement will not be found locally, but that it will be unified with an element in 'fronted' position.
It is interesting, however, that there is a rather strong contrast in rates of inversion after a subcategorized, fronted element between transitives and other verbs.
Where there is no adverb, as in the second pair of sentences, the scope relations are not upset if the negative is fronted.
Sentence (99) shows that subject-auxiliary inversion in which the leftmost auxiliary is fronted is grammatical.
Plausibility was manipulated such that the fronted wh- phrase was either a plausible or an implausible object of the verb hide.
These fronted phrases may appear preverbally in a number of orders.
A full 43% of their onsets are fronted during unmonitored free speech.
In this section we shall examine alternative theories of how multiple fronted auxiliaries are derived.
Additional constraints are required to account for the fact that back vowels are not fronted after these coronals.
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