<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:#4c1130"><br clear="all"></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">Hello all,</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">Sorry to bog people down in a reoccurring discussion about comparative concepts, but has anyone ever thought of trying to define "Right Node Raising" in a cross-linguistically general way? Does this even make sense...<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">As a refresher RNR goes back to Postal's 1974 <i>On Raising</i> (perhaps with antecedents in Ross and Chomsky). It involves sentences like the following in (1). (2) is supposed to be just normal coordination.<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">
(1) Adam wrote ___ and his colleague edited the paper. <br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">(2) Adam wrote the phonology paper and read the syntax paper.<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">I understand that (1) is called Right node raising, because there's some idea that the [the paper] starts in the gapped position and raises rightward...</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">RNR definition:<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">"Some structural repetition, where the repeated part is not a constituent according to my assumptions about the constituency of the language."</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">Is that it, does anyone else have any insights into this based on their research?<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">best,</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default">Adam<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(76,17,48)" class="gmail_default"></div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Adam J.R. Tallman</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Post-doctoral Researcher <br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif">Friedrich Schiller Universität<br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif">Department of English Studies<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>