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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear list members,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In Pollard and Sag (1994; p 167, footnote 8), it is
assumed that the syntactic subject of the tough construction is assigned
a semantic role by the adjective. Although they gave some pieces of
evidence, I am not sure that those are sufficient for the argument that the
subject of the tough construction is the semantic argument of the tough (easy)
class verbs. Intuitively, it seems to me that the subject does not get any role
from the tough class verbs. In addition, in Korean, tough movement
is optional when the subject of the embedded VP is raised into
the matrix subject position. I want to get some references to current
work on tough constructions. I would appreciate any information on this topic.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in advance,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Incheol Choi</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
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<DIV> Incheol Choi</DIV>
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