In Kirkwood (1970) I noted that in the passivization of a sentence such as: (i) They issued a report on recent developments. i.e. (2) A report was issued on recent developments. a prepositional phrase on recent developments , which appears in some way to be attached to the subject noun phrase a report , may be detached from it in surface structure and placed after the verb. A similar phenomenon was observed in equivalent German sentences. Compare:
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Henry W. Kirkwood (1977) studied this question.
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