Linguistic Inquiry
The purpose of this squib is to show that in addition to the generallyaccepted distinction between fronted adjuncts and fronted arguments, we need to introduce a further distinction between fronted adjuncts resulting from long-distance movement and those resulting from short-distance movement (hereafter, short and long fronted adjuncts). It turns out that, distributionally, long fronted adjuncts are in many respects more like fronted arguments than like short fronted adjuncts. I will first show the need for making this distinction on the basis of English data and then provide some comparative data in support.