Three investigations of extraction
By: Paul M. Postal.
Series: Current studies in linguistics ;; 29; Current studies in linguistics series ;; 29.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Extraction (Linguistics)
Description: In this technical monograph, Paul Postal deals with several crucial issues that have been treated only marginally in the development of current linguistic theorizing. He focuses on three problems in syntactic theory that are connected to "extraction" - the occurrence of an element in a position distinct from its unmarked locus in simple clauses.

He examines a largely ignored body of systematic contrasts among known extraction types, the status of the Coordinate Structure Constraint, and the phenomenon of Right Node Raising.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-211) and index.