Examples

Figure C.2 shows a metarule for wh-movement of the subject. Among the trees to which it have been applied are the basic trees of intransitive, transitive and ditransitive families (including prepositional complements), passive trees of the same families, and ergative.

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{Metarule for wh-movement of subject

 

Figure C.3 shows a metarule for wh-movement of an NP in object position. Among the trees to which it have been applied are the basic and passive trees of transitive and ditransitive families.

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Figure C.4 shows a metarule for general wh-movement of an NP. It can be applied to generate trees with either subject or object NP moved. Figure C.5 shows the basic tree for the family Tnx0Vnx1Pnx2 and the three wh-trees generated by the application of the rule.

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Tnx0Vnx1Pnx2	subject moved
NP object moved	NP object moved from PP

{Application of wh-movement rule to Tnx0Vnx1Pnx2