On raising and copy raising in Maltese

This paper seeks to describe and account for the (morpho)syntactic behaviour of
lexically determined raising predicates and constructions, and will be considering
a list of properties that characterise these. Different raising-to-subj constructions
available in Maltese are discussed, and eventually formalised within the Lexical
Functional Grammar framework. We will argue that raising constructions in Mal-
tese can be divided into two analyses: raising that involves a structure-shared de-
pendency, and raising that involves an anaphoric binding dependency between the
matrix subj and any embedded grammatical function, subject to the identified con-
straints that will be discussed. We illustrate how in Maltese, raising structures are
of the former type, while copy raising is of the latter.