Publications

Publication details [#4881]

Hooper, Joan B. and Sandra A. Thompson. 1973. On the applicability of root transformations. Linguistic Inquiry 4 (4) : 465–498.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assertive | emphasis2 | presupposition | question | root tranformation

Journal WWW

www.catchword.com/mitpress/00243892/contp1-1.htm

Annotation

H. and T. show that emphatic root transformations can apply only on sentences that are asserted and are excluded from operating on questions and presupposed clauses.

Reviewed by

McCawley, Noriko Akatsuka. 1977. What is the 'emphatic root transformation' phenomenon?