Common use of Root Clause in Contracts

Root. A root will mean either the highest S in a tree, an S immediately dominated by the highest S or the reported S in direct discourse. (Emonds 1969: 6) The following taken from Emonds (1969) exemplifies the three three root environments where the root transformation of Negative Constituent Preposing may occur; the fourth example shows a non-root environment that does not allow this operation.

Root. A root will mean either the highest S in a tree, an S immediately dominated by the highest S or the reported S in direct discourse. (Emonds 1969: 6) The following taken from Emonds (1969) exemplifies the three three root environments where the root In these contexts, a non-structure preserving transformation of such as Negative Constituent Preposing (NCP) may occur; the fourth example shows apply, but not in a non-root environment that does not allow this operationclause, which requires all transformations to be structure-preserving.

Root. A root will mean either the highest S in a tree, an S immediately dominated by the highest S or the reported S in direct discourse. (Emonds 1969: 6) The following taken from Emonds (1969) exemplifies the three three root environments where the root In these contexts, a non-structure preserving transformation of such as Negative Constituent Preposing (NCP) may occur; the fourth example shows apply, but not in a non-root environment that does not allow this operationclause, which requires all transformations to be structure-preserving (see also Emonds 1976, 2004, 2012).