sliftingn.
/ˈslɪftɪŋ/ Linguistics.
In transformational grammar, a rule or transformation which promotes material from an embedded sentence following a cognitive verb to a main sentence.
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cleft construction1937
wh-transformation1957
rank shift1961
rankshifting1965
fronting1966
pseudo-cleft1967
promotion1968
pseudo-clefting1970
tough movement1971
slifting1973
extraposing1976
1973 J. R. Ross in M. Gross et al. Formal Anal. Nat. Lang. 134 Such structures..are converted by a rule which I will refer to as Slifting (= sentence lifting).
1976 Language 52 396 Slifting, a rule which fronts the complements of verbs of saying and thinking.., has created the appropriate environment.
1977 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 1976 21 153 Sentences like the following are basically the same in meaning..(1) I believe Ralph came. (2) Ralph came, I believe. These have been described..as related by a transformational rule of Sentence-Lifting or Complement Preposing (to be abbreviated here as ‘Slifting’).
1980 Studies in Lang. 4 121 Possibly the path of derivation involves Extraposition and Slifting..followed by a rule which can..convert a parenthetical clause to a surface adverb.
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