In this paper, I suggest the following. First, unlike what Ross (1984) and Rizzi (1990, 2000, 2001) suggest, the adjunct-complement dichotomy in relation to inner island effects are derived for some lexical and/or pragmatic reasons, but not due to the “blocking” effects of negation; and “blocking” effects of negation show up whether what moves is an adjunct or a complement. Second, as Kuno and Takami (1997) suggest, the negating function of negation and wh-movement interact in a certain way, but the way they interact is different from what Kuno and Takami suggest. Third, inner island effects as pure “blocking” effects can be explained in terms of a locality condition in the sense of Rizzi (2000), and inner island effects, which are sensitive to the interaction between the negating function of negation and wh-movement, can be best explained under a movement approach to negation suggested in Choe (2000, 2001).
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Rizzi’s (1990, 2000) account
3. An interaction between the negating function of negation and wh-movement
4. A syntactic approach to inner island effects
5. Summary and conclusion
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