This article explores the nature of locality principle. In particular, we compare two recent conceptions of locality, which are Chomsky s (2001a, 2001b) phase-based implementation of locality and Hiraiwa s (2003) version of cyclic derivational locality. We present a new piece of empirical arguments against Hiraiwa (2003) from locality circumvention effects observed in passivization of applicative structures. We show that the locality circumvention phenomenon induced by wh-movement of a higher internal argument when a lower internal argument undergoes passivizing A-movement past it in low applicative structures cannot be explained under Hiraiwa s cyclic locality computation, whereas it can be well accounted for under Chomsky s phase-based evaluation view, which is a partly representational version of locality principle.
1. Introduction
2. Locality Circumvention Effects in Passivization of Low Applicative Structures in Greek, Dutch, and Dialects of English
3. Locality Principle
4. Back to Locality Circumvention Effects: Wh-movement of Goal Arguments and Passivization of Theme Arguments
5. Concluding Remarks
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