Problems in VP-fronting in English

In this paper, I show that VP-front, some cases of wh-movement, and topicalization all share properties that would be explained by adopting some version of minimal reconstruction proposed in Jang (2000). I show that previos analyses proposed to resolve the issue of binding effects exhibited in VP fronting sentences may not be viable to account for wider range of data. That is Huang (1993) proposes that VP-internal Subject Hypothesis and general binding theory are enough to explain the said phenomena. Takano(1995) proposes that reconstruction, which is independently motivated, is needed to explain the binding phenomena in VP fronting and related constructions. This paper shows that neither analysis, as it is now, can cover relevant data and that some more qualification such as Jang (2000) may be needed to conditions on reconstruction.