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Real Su, Semantic Su, Logical Su It Is Obvious (That I Know Very Litle About That Report)

The document discusses extraposition, which is a syntactic process that allows movement of the that-clause complement (TCC) to final position in the main clause and insertion of the expletive pronoun "it". Extraposition can occur in subject, direct object, or prepositional object positions. The result is a complex sentence with two subjects, direct objects, or prepositional objects - the first expressed by the expletive pronoun "it" and the second realized by the TCC. The TCC can function as the direct object of simple or complex transitive verbs in the main clause.

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Real Su, Semantic Su, Logical Su It Is Obvious (That I Know Very Litle About That Report)

The document discusses extraposition, which is a syntactic process that allows movement of the that-clause complement (TCC) to final position in the main clause and insertion of the expletive pronoun "it". Extraposition can occur in subject, direct object, or prepositional object positions. The result is a complex sentence with two subjects, direct objects, or prepositional objects - the first expressed by the expletive pronoun "it" and the second realized by the TCC. The TCC can function as the direct object of simple or complex transitive verbs in the main clause.

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g) Extraposition

clausal Su, it , ->


[That I know very little about that report]is obvious.
TCC
real Su,semantic Su,logical Su
It is obvious [that i know very litle about that report].
It= grammatical Su,formal Su,anticipatory Su
Extraposition is a syntactic process that allows movement of theTCC to final position
in the CC and the obligatory insertion of the explitive pronoun it.
She doesnt regret [that] very much.
NP
*She doesnt regret [that she has become a banker]very much.
TCC
DO
She doesnt regret it very much [that she has become a banker].
It= grammatical,formal,anticipatory
That= real,semantic,logical
PO
They are not sure [that they won the competition].
TCC
grammatical PO
real PO
They are not sure [of it][that they won the competition].
PO
He insisted [that I was wrong].
TCC
PO
PO
He insisted [on it][that I was wrong].
Extraposition is of 3 types :
Su position
DO position
PO position
The result of extraposition is a complex sentence that has 2 Su two DO or two
PO.The first one is expressed by the explitive pronoun it,the second one is realized
by the CC.The first one is always grammatical form while the second one is real or
logical.
Both,heavy NP shift and extraposition involve movement of the CC to final
position.The difference is in the fact that the pronoun it is inserted only in
construction based on extraposition.
1. The distribution of TCC
The position of TCC within a complex sentence
The syntactic function of TCC
a) TCC as DO
TCC may function as DO for simple or complex transitive verbs in the main clause.

DO
I gathered [(that) they were not expected to eat with us].
optional
Simple transitive verbs that take a clausal DO usually express mintal activity:to
asume, to believe, to understand, to imagine, to show, to realize, to remember, to
supouse
With these verbs the complementizer conjunct that is optional.
DO
The English newspaper disclosed [that the bill have been signed].
TCC
TCC funcion as DO for simple transitive verbs used in formal complex:to discloude,
to aniticipate, to announce, to declare, to establish, to prescribe, to predict, to
speculate
Such verbs of formal comunicate do not allow the deletion of the conjunction that.

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