Subject raising

Definition

Subject raising is the movement of the subject of a sentential complement to the subject position of the matrix clause.

Example

In (i) John, the subject of to have won has moved to the subject position of seems.

(i)  Johni seems [ ti to have won ]

Subject Raising is triggered by Subject Raising verbs (e.g. to seem), which have as a characteristic property that they do not assign an external theta-role, and select a sentential complement with a case-less subject position. Subject Raising also occurs with passivized ECM verbs, as in (ii).

(ii) Johni is considered [ ti to have won ]

Links

• Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

• Chomsky, N. 1981. Lectures on Government and Binding, Foris, Dordrecht.

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