Talk:Tough movement

This page_i would [_VP be [_AdjP easy [_CP [_COp_i] [_IP PRO_arbitr [_I' [_I to] [_VP [_V' [_V move ] t_i] back ]]]]]]. There is nothing_j [_CP [_COp_j] [_IP PRO_arbitr [_I' [_I to] [_VP [_V' [_V confuse [_NP it_i] ] [_PP with [_NP t_j]]]]]].

Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:14, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

This was a tough move to make indeed. Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Future direction

This page really needs to be turned into a subsection of a larger discussion of null-operator constructions. For the ambitious out there, you might at least briefly discuss these types of constructions as well:

infinitival relatives, that-relatives, purpose clauses, infinitival adjuncts, clefts, NPI's, parasitic gaps

also, there are two sides to the story of tough-movement and most of the constructions listed above. it's not a given that they are all null-operator constructions. For example, parasitic gap constructions have gotten a null-operator analysis and an ATB-extraction analysis (not to mention Nunes' sideward movement). And, of course, relative clauses have also received a raising analysis.

Ogiedonatelli (talk) 21:07, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Proposal to reformat and expand on language examples

As part of an undergrad project, a group of students from The University of British Columbia would like to expand and reformat this article. First we would like to reformat the layout of the page to make future navigation and access of references easier. We hope this will help make further expansion of the page more accessible. Second, we seek to expand on the current language examples to include at least one other language. SadSyntaxBoi (talk) 20:33, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi again, we'd like to say that we are glad we were able to expand the knowledge base on tough movement. We overhauled the page including adding examples and extra information for Spanish and Japanese, a new phrase structure tree to show Rosenbaum's object-to-subject raising analysis, and more details about the various analyses. In the future more examples from other languages like French could be added, and our research for this page alerted us to the fact that Wikipedia could use some currently non-existent pages on related topics like null pronouns and partial control. Thanks to the other editors who dropped by while we were working for reading!SadSyntaxBoi (talk) 07:17, 21 December 2021 (UTC)