Notes on T-to-C Movement and Parallelism in Ellipsis

Hartman (2011) argues that head movement takes place in the narrow syntax (contra Chomsky 2000, Boeckx and Stjepanović 2001). His argument comes from the interaction of T-to-C movement and the MaxElide effect in ellipsis. However, Hartman leaves certain sets of data unresolved as a puzzle. This paper attempts to resolve the puzzle and argues that what has not been considered in the puzzle is a Parallelism requirement (in the sense of Fox and Lasnik 2003). The Parallelism considerations will in tum lead us to present some other important problems and issues, and I suggest that these are the real puzzles to be resolved.