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Journal Article
Ā-Chain Formation and Economy of Derivation
1996
Overview
As Epstein (1992) observes, the principle of Economy of Derivation (cf. Chomsky 1991, 1993, 1994) yields an interesting consequence with respect to Ā-chain formation in English: it predicts that wh-phrases cannot optionally undergo topicalization, scrambling, or wh-movement at S-Structure in multiple questions. However, we show that wh-phrases can undergo optional movement under well-defined circumstances in typologically different languages, in constructions involving partial wh-movement, wh-imperatives, wh-pied-piping, wh-scrambling, and wh-reconstruction. In view of this, we contend that illicit cases of optional wh-movement should not be excluded by a transderivational economy constraint, and we develop an alternative analysis in terms of the Principle of Unambiguous Binding, proposed in Müller and Sternefeld 1993 as a general constraint blocking improper movement.
Publisher
The MIT Press,MIT Press,M. I. T. Press
