In
linguistics,
raising constructions involve the movement of an
argument from an embedded or
subordinate clause to a matrix or
main clause; in other words, a raising
predicate/
verb appears with a syntactic argument that is not its semantic argument, but is rather the semantic
argument of an embedded predicate. Although
English has raising constructions, not all languages do. The term
raising has its origins in the
transformational analysis of such constructions; the
constituent in question is seen as being "raised" from its initial,
deep structure position as the subject of the embedded predicate to its
surface structure position in the matrix predicate/verb. Raising predicates/verbs are related to
control predicates, although there are important differences between the two predicate/verb types.