RIGHT NODE RAISING: A NULL ANAPHOR ANALYSIS

Abstract

The so-called Right Node Raising (RNR) constructions are generally taken to exhibit a large number of peculiarities, which make it impossible to properly formulate a rule of RNR. However, these anomalous properties of RNR constructions, it seems to me, prove that the previous analyses are quite inadequate. To dispel anomalies of RNR constructions, in this paper, I will propose a null anaphor analysis of RNR based on two kinds of hypotheses: i) the structure-preserving nature of RNR constructions, and ii) an interpretive analysis of RNR constructions. I will show that our analysis of RNR is valid by presenting ample supporting evidence.