Editing Movement paradox (section)

== Syntactic movement ==   
Given a transformational approach to syntax, the following related sentences are explained in terms of [[Syntactic movement|movement]]:

::a. We talked about <u>the fact that he was sick</u> for days.
::b. <u>The fact that he was sick</u>, we talked about ___ for days. <small>- Example of topicalization</small>

The underlined noun phrase, which contains a clause, is taken to have moved leftward in the second sentence, the blank marking its starting position. A transformational approach to syntax will explain all sorts of discontinuities (e.g. [[wh-fronting]], [[topicalization]], [[extraposition]], [[scrambling (linguistics)|scrambling]], [[Inversion (linguistics)|inversion]], [[Shifting (syntax)|shifting]]) in this manner in terms of movement.