Toru Ishii

The Phase Impenetrability Condition, the Vacuous Movement Hypothesis, and that-t effects

This paper proposes a new analysis of that-t effects, which have resisted any principled minimalist account. It is shown that given the Vacuous Movement Hypothesis, that-t effects straightforwardly follow from the Phase Impenetrability Condition, an independently motivated principle in the minimalist program. The proposed analysis receives further support from the fact that it accounts for adverb effects and crosslinguistic variations with that-t effects.

A Nonuniform Analysis of Overt Wh -Movement

A NONUNIFORM ANALYSIS OF OVERT WH-MOVEMENT Toru Ishii Meiji University Ross, John R. 1969. Guess who? In Papers from the Fifth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society, ed. by Rob I. Binnick, Alice Davison, Georgia M. Green, and Jerry L. Morgan, 252–286. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago, Chicago Linguistic Society. Stjepanović, Sandra. 1999. What do second position cliticization, scrambling, and multiple wh-fronting have in common? Doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Stjepanović, Sandra. 2003. Multiple wh-fronting in Serbo-Croatian matrix questions and the matrix sluicing construction. In Multiple wh-fronting, ed. by Cedric Boeckx and Kleanthes K. Grohmann, 255–284. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.