Notes on Long Adverbial Fronting in English and the Left Periphery

The purpose of this squib is to show that in addition to the generally accepted distinction between fronted arguments, we need to introduce a further distinction between fronted adjuncts resulting from long-distance movement. It turns out that, distributionally, long-fronted adjuncts are in many respects more like fronted arguments than like the short fronted adjuncts. The author will first show the need for making this distinction on the basis of English data and then provide some comparative data in support

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