One of the strongest arguments for a raising‐to‐object analysis of English accusative‐and‐infinitive constructions comes from the fact that adverbials and particles belonging to the matrix clause can intervene between the embedded subject and the embedded predicate. We reevaluate this argument in the light of a neglected alternative analysis, namely that matrix‐clause intervention is the result of extraposition of the embedded predicate. We show that this analysis gives a better account of matrix‐clause intervention than raising to object. Our arguments are based on the scopal properties of the embedded subject and on the order among multiple intervening elements. We also consider various mixed analyses that feature both raising to object and extraposition. These turn out to be conceptually awkward and empirically flawed.

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论宾格和不定式结构中的矩阵句干预

对英语的宾格和不定式构造进行宾语分析的最有力论据之一是，属于矩阵从句的副词和质点可以介入嵌入式主语和谓语之间。我们根据被忽略的替代分析来重新评估该论点，即矩阵子句干预是嵌入谓词的外加结果。我们表明，该分析比提出反对要更好地说明矩阵从句干预。我们的论据基于嵌入主题的范围属性，并基于多个中间元素之间的顺序。我们还考虑了各种混合分析，这些分析既具有提出对象又具有外向性的特征。这些结果在概念上是笨拙的，在经验上也是有缺陷的。