It is quite well-known that there are A/A" asymmetries in reconstruction effects. The main claim of this paper is that A-movement is a movement into the SPEC of a potential predicate, while A"-movement is a movement into the SPEC of a non-predicate. Movement produces multiple copies and one copy must be associated with a predicate at LF, but the copy in A"-position cannot. Therefore, a copy in A-position must be interpreted, which triggers A/A" asymmetries in reconstruction effects. This paper also attempts to explain the operator/variable asymmetries and the complement/adjunct asymmetries. In an attempt to explain these asymmetries, I propose that the scope effects of movement must be preserved at LF, and that interpreting more than one copies is permitted at LF as well as at PF, if required by grammatical principles like the Principle of Full Interpretation.
영어 초록<BR>1. Introduction<BR>2. Previous Analyses<BR>3. Complex Predicates and reconstruction effects<BR>4. Reconstruction effects in A-movement<BR>5. Summary and Conclusion<BR>References<BR>저자소개<BR>
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