Raising, subcategorization and selection in modern Irish

It was in an attempt to elucidate the central properties of this relationship that the transformation of Subject (to Subject) Raising was first proposed (Rosenbaum 1967, Kiparsky & Kiparsky 1971, Postal 1974). It is with this 'Raising relationship' that I will be concerned in this paper, though in a different language-Modern Irish. There are many points of controversy concerning the proper analysis of this relationship in current work. It is, for instance, a matter of dispute whether or not it is properly seen as a transformational relationship (whether or not it involves syntactic movement). I will not take a position on that question here. However, we will need terminology; I will therefore frequently use terms associated with the classical movement analysis. It should be understood that this is an expository convenience, and implies no commitment to any of the currently-available options for the analysis of such constructions. I will also take for granted here what is widely assumed (but which is not obviously correct; see Seiter 1979a, 1979b), namely that only subjects of nonfinite clauses may 'be Raised'. The dispute I will be concerned with is that concerning the range of positions to which a complement subject may legally be Raised. What is the range of possible target-positions or host-positions for Raising? It seems to be uncontroversial that NP's may be Raised to subject position. Raising to

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