#> btw: What do you mean by 'tough-movement'?
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#This is the TG name for constructions of the sort:
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#4. a. Tipper was difficult to convince.
# b. Hilary is easy to please.
# c. Laura is tough to beat (at tennis).
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#Trask's dictionary says that it was also known as object-to-subject
#raising.
#Joe
TG latterly called it the "object gap construction", iirc. I don't know what it (or anything else, for that matter) is called these days.
--And.
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