| List of glosses used | 9 |
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| 1 Introduction | 11 |
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| 1.1 Overview | 16 |
| 1.2 Theoretical sketch | 18 |
| 2 On successive-cyclic movement | 23 |
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| 2.1 Introduction | 23 |
| 2.2 Are movement paths punctuated or uniform? | 27 |
| 2.2.1 What constitutes a valid argument for punctuated paths? | 27 |
| 2.2.2 Proposed evidence for punctuated paths (Abels 2003c) | 29 |
| 2.2.3 Reconstruction in Norwegian | 33 |
| 2.2.4 Evidence from ellipsis | 37 |
| 2.2.5 Parasitic gaps (Nissenbaum, 2001) | 51 |
| 2.2.6 A point of logic: Condition C and scope for binding | 55 |
| 2.2.7 Conclusion | 55 |
| 2.3 The edge of CP as a landing site of successive-cyclic movement | 57 |
| 2.4 Reflection | 66 |
| 3 Some properties of movement | 73 |
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| 3.1 Introduction | 73 |
| 3.2 Partial movement | 74 |
| 3.3 Pied-piping | 79 |
| 3.4 Secondary movement | 84 |
| 3.5 Reflection | 91 |
| 4 The theory of cyclicity and phases | 97 |
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| 4.1 Configurations for feature-sharing | 99 |
| 4.2 Movement and last resort | 113 |
| 4.3 Phase impenetrability | 120 |
| 4.3.1 Phases and sub-numerations | 121 |
| 4.3.2 Phase impenetrability and islands | 125 |
| 4.3.3 The stranding generalization | 128 |
| 4.4 Phase heads and their features | 129 |
| 4.4.1 Implementing successive cyclicity | 130 |
| 4.4.2 Morphological parameterization | 132 |
| 4.4.3 Extraction in Austronesian | 143 |
| 5 Feature Values and Interpretation | 149 |
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| 5.1 Feature interpretation | 149 |
| 5.2 Towards a precise formulation | 151 |
| 5.3 Possible systems based on a single feature: A dry run | 154 |
| 5.3.1 [uF.] probes | 155 |
| 5.3.2 [uF..] probes | 157 |
| 5.3.3 [uF.] probes | 161 |
| 5.4 The generalizations | 163 |
| 5.4.1 Partial Movement | 163 |
| 5.4.2 Pied-piping and secondary movement | 167 |
| 5.5 Wh-movement in various languages | 175 |
| 5.5.1 Single-Wh-movement languages: English, French, Italian | 176 |
| 5.5.2 Multiple-Wh-fronting languages | 183 |
| 5.5.3 Wh-in-situ | 187 |
| 5.6 Summary | 190 |
| 6 The phase heads v, C, P and the stranding generalization | 191 |
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| 6.1 VP immobility under v | 191 |
| 6.1.1 VPs are mobile | 191 |
| 6.1.2 VPs do not strand v | 193 |
| 6.2 TP immobility under C | 195 |
| 6.2.1 TPs do not strand C | 195 |
| 6.2.2 TPs are mobile | 199 |
| 6.2.3 The ban on C-stranding, word order, and cartography | 201 |
| 6.2.4 Is there long TP movement? | 206 |
| 6.3 DP immobility under P | 210 |
| 6.3.1 PP pied-piping | 212 |
| 6.3.2 Subextraction | 214 |
| 6.4 Conclusion | 229 |
| 7 On adposition stranding | 231 |
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| 7.1 Trace or null resumptive? | 231 |
| 7.2 P-stranding in German and Dutch | 239 |
| 7.2.1 R-words are not pronouns | 242 |
| 7.2.2 R-words are not complements of P | 245 |
| 7.2.3 So what are R-words? And where? | 248 |
| 7.3 P-stranding languages | 253 |
| 7.3.1 Special clitics as the complement of adpositions | 254 |
| 7.3.2 Was für split | 260 |
| 7.3.3 Adposition stranding and D-to-P incorporation | 265 |
| 7.3.4 The pseudo passive | 267 |
| 7.3.5 Adposition stranding and verbal particles | 271 |
| 7.3.6 Implications | 276 |
| 7.4 Conclusion | 277 |
| 8 Phases | 285 |
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| 9 Bibliography | 287 |
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| 10 Index | 319 |