This study investigates the types of movement and movement-like relations that link
positions in syntactic structure. David Pesetsky argues that there are three such relations …

This thesis investigates the mechanisms applying in the interpretation of syntactic chains.
The theoretical background includes a translation of syntactic forms into semantic forms and …

In a number of cases (involving, eg, negation, only, reverse scope of some and every, ACD)
where covert (LF) phrasal movement has been postulated, it is possible and advantageous …

Quantification forms a significant aspect of cross-linguistic research into both sentence
structure and meaning. This book surveys research in quantification starting with the …

The phenomenon of “frozen scope” in double object and spray-load constructions is shown
to hold robustly across contexts, constructions, and quantifier types. Nevertheless, frozen …

Theories of total reconstruction have generally supposed that movement can be followed by
an undoing operation like LF lowering (May 1977, 1985) or deletion of higher copies …

Across the languages of the world, we repeatedly find that the extraction of the subject of an
embed ded clause correlates with a reduction in the size of that clause. This generalization …

Ditransitive verbs such as send and give appear in two distinct structures in English, the
double object and the to-dative constructions. It is well known that the two differ semantically …

A recurring pattern of partial correlations between word order variation and scope
possibilities (the ¾ signature) supports a particular view of economy constraints in syntax …

An interpretive effect of head movement Winfried Lechner Page 1 An interpretive effect of
head movement Winfried Lechner 1. Introduction In this paper, I explicate an argument for the …