Carlo Cecchetto
University of Milan
In this talk I offer an explanation for the fact that QR tends to be more local
than other types of A-bar movement (i.e. in typical cases, QR cannot take place
out of a finite clause). My explanation assumes (and offers evidence for) the
Phase Impenetrability Condition (cf. Chomsky 2001) and an Economy Condition
that requires that each step of (possibly successive cyclic) QR be motivated
(cf. Fox 1995). After showing why QR is local in typical cases, I consider new
evidence, involving a counterpart of ACD in Italian, which indicates that QR
takes place long distance, as other types of A-bar movement do, whenever each
step is independently motivated. It follows that it can be maintained that the
locality conditions on QR are not construction specific, as expected given the
general format of the theory.
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