The Proceedirigsof the Seventeenth West Coast

This pa,per provides empirical support for the claim that predication created . by syntactic movement plays a role in syntactic computation. The proposal that every movement operation creates a predicate abstraCt over the target of movement was suggested by Heim and Kratzer (1998) in order to simplify the semantic component of the grammar. I show that it milo has empirical consequences. Specifically, 1 demonstrate that well-known properties. of Parasitic Gap (PO) constructions can be derived in a priricipled way from . the proposal. Further, Ipresent evidence for a previously unnoticed property of inside subject NPs: they are licensed only if the subject undergoes reconstruction: I show that this property follows as well from the analysis. The paradigm (1) illustrates three characteristic properties OfPGs: opGs cannot be licensed by covert movement, as shown in {lb); othey obey an anti-c-command condition (lc); and othey are not licensed by A-movement to subject position (ld)..