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A Note on "Restructuring" and Quantifier Climbing in French
- Linguistic Inquiry
- The MIT Press
- Volume 33, Number 4, Fall 2002
- pp. 617-636
- Article
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Although Modern French was originally taken to lack the "restructuring" phenomenon altogether, four different "restructuring" effects have more recently been claimed to exist in the language: en and y climbing, quantifier climbing, adverb climbing, and long movement in 'easy-to-please' constructions. Evidence discussed in this article shows that only en and y climbing and long movement in 'easy-toplease' constructions are bona fide instances of "restructuring" in French.