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Precede-and-command revisited revisited
- Language
- Linguistic Society of America
- Volume 91, Number 3, September 2015
- pp. e169-e178
- 10.1353/lan.2015.0045
- Article
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Basing his argumentation on an analysis of condition C effects, proposes to replace the familiar notion of c-command underlying dependency relations with a precede-and-command condition, which defines dependency relations as precedence relations within a local domain (phase). In this reply I argue that condition C effects cannot be used to show the relevance of phases for the definition of syntactic dependency, and I question the conceptual necessity of the notion phase as currently defined.