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Acknowledgments

Preface

1 Orientation and goals

1.1 Some methodological preliminaries

1.1.1 A note on empirical coverage

1.1.2 Unclarity as a ‘merely conceptual’, hence non-empirical, issue

1.2 Outline and rationale

1.2.1 Eliminating A-chains

1.2.2 Derivations

1.2.3 The EPP

2 On the elimination of A-chains

2.1 Chains are not syntactic objects

2.1.1 Syntactic objects

2.1.2 Copy theory and chains

2.1.3 Why chains are not syntactic objects

2.1.4 A potential problem: substantive reference to A-chains

2.2 A-chains are not specifiable under X' invisibility

2.2.1 Could chains be visible, but only at LF?

2.2.2 Avoiding reference to X': motherhood instead of sisterhood?

2.2.3 Chains are redundant with Merge and Move

2.3 A non-isomorphism between A-chains and successive cyclic A-movement

2.3.1 +/- interpretability of features

2.3.2 How are chains formed?

2.3.3 Chains and the chain condition

2.3.4 Derivation-internal deletion of derivation-internally created copies and chains

2.4 An alternative analysis without chains

2.4.1 A-movement in one step

2.4.2 The elimination of A-traces: derivation vs. representation

3 On the elimination of the EPP

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The EPP

3.2.1 The mysteriousness of the EPP

3.2.2 The unclarity of the formulation of the EPP

3.2.3 Redundancy with other principles

3.2.4 Non-redundant EPP satisfaction

3.2.5 Inadequacy: McCloskey’s elimination of the EPP

3.3 There-insertion and raising: more problems created by the EPP

3.3.1 The central problem

3.3.2 Problematic solutions: a domino effect?

3.3.3 Further issues concerning there-insertion and raising

3.3.4 Some advantages of a derivational analysis

3.3.5 On ECM

3.4 The conjecture class of verbs

3.4.1 The Problem

3.4.2 On the properties of conjecture verbs and the documented unclarity of the data

3.4.3 A new problem: nominal conjecture

4 More challenges to the elimination of the EPP: some movement cases

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Evidence for successive cyclic A-movement as evidence for the EPP

4.3 The Bošković approach

4.3.1 Bošković: successive cyclic A-movement without the EPP

4.3.2 Potential problems with the Bošković approach

4.4 Some alternative solutions

4.4.1 Getting into (and out of) a bind

4.4.2 Does the experiencer c-command into the lower clause?

4.4.3 Toward a solution: Torrego (2002) on experiencers

4.4.4 Experiencers and reconstruction

4.5 Lasnik’s cases

4.5.1 Introduction

5 Exploring architecture

5.1 Derivational architecture of CH

5.1.1 Existentials, Case and the derivation

5.1.2 The Gutmann Problem

5.2 Some final notes on the derivational model; eliminating feature strength and ‘obligatory’ transformational rule application

References

Index