A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
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/ n. In RG, any process in which a clause is restructured so as to move some NP into a lower-ranking position on the Relational Hierarchy, such as the demotion of an underlying subject to an oblique NP in passivization.
The term is also sometimes used in a loose descriptive sense in frameworks in which it has no theoretical status.
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