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Voiding Island Effects via Head Movement
- Linguistic Inquiry
- The MIT Press
- Volume 43, Number 4, Fall 2012
- pp. 680-693
- Article
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I argue that Bošković’s (2011c) generalization concerning the island-voiding effect of incorporation can be captured naturally within minimalist bare phrase structure if head movement (a) is a syntactic operation and (b) leaves no trace/copy. É. Kiss’s (2008) “domain-flattening” phenomena are also expected under the proposed account. Further empirical consequences are discussed.