ABSTRACT
Jenkins (1973) offers an alternative base-derived theory of ES which abandons the claim of the PS Hypothesis that the coda of ES is always an instance of NP, and thus would seem to avoid much of the criticism levelled at the PS Hypothesis in the last chapter. The core of the analysis is a claim that ES are parallel in (deep and surface) structure to cleft sentences and sentences with complement-taking “perception verbs,” such as see, hear, feel. Superficially, these three types of sentences show a large degree of parallelism in structure. Compare (1) – (3).
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