Modal adjectives: Transformations, synonymy, and complementation

Readings in English Transformational Grammar

Donald T. Forman, Roderick A. Jacobs, Peter S. Rosenbaum · Modern Language Journal · 1973 · 1.4K citations

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Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English

Frank H. Nuessel, David M. Perlmutter, Scott Soames · Modern Language Journal · 1980 · 115 citations

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On the surface syntax of constructions with <i>easy</i> -type adjectives

Deborah Linett Nanni · Language · 1980 · 69 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Morphology +13