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<p>utrecht</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{stub}}<br /> <br /> <br /> displacement of a so-called heavy NP (an NP which is prosodically 'heavy', i.e. contains a large amount of phonological material) to the right edge of the sentence:<br /> <br /> (i) a They sent [that book that only got good reviews in the New York Times] to Mary<br /> b They sent t to Mary [that book that only got good reviews in the New York Times]<br /> <br /> '''Heavy-NP shift''' presumably is a so-called stylistic rule, i.e. a rule which does not belong to [[core grammar]]. It may be related to [[scrambling]] since it is not a case of [[A-movement]].<br /> <br /> === Link ===<br /> <br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Heavy-NP+shift&amp;lemmacode=705 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Syntax]]</div>

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