Rethinking Right-node Raising

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This analysis reinterprets right-node raising in discourse, suggesting it is not a syntactic phenomenon but paratactic.

Right-node raising appears not to be a syntactic phenomenon but a paratactic configuration in discourse.
The study challenges long-held assumptions about right-node raising, making sense of its elusive nature.
RNR configurations consist of a sequence of expressions that lead to expectations of continuations.
This approach reconciles contradictions in RNR constructions by shifting the focus away from traditional syntax.

Dennis Ott (2025) studied this question.

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