摘要：This is a study of sentence repetition in MB, an Italian patient with mixed transcortical aphasia. In preliminary testing, MB spontaneously resisted (in 40% of the cases) accurate repetition when presented with sentences featuring morphosyntactic violations (see Davis et al., 1978). MB also managed to repeat all the proposed phrasal chunks, even in complex sentences. Interestingly, MB tended to move the constituents with the violation (always oblique arguments/adjuncts) at the beginning of the sentence or in another non-canonical position (e.g. dislocating adjuncts immediately before verbs). Thus，he selectively performed “adjunct scrambling”. In current theoretical terms, scrambling can be defined as an operation that moves a maximal projection to the specifier of a functional head, that triggers scrambling with a given feature.
