Control and Reconstruction Effects of Adjuncts in Hindi

The reconstruction effects1 of arguments have been discussed extensively in the literature. The theory developed in Mahajan 1990 addresses Hindi scrambling and accounts for reconstruction effects of arguments. The core of that theory is that scrambling is properly factored into three distinct types of movement: (i) A-movement to the SPEC position of a functional head, called Argument Shift, (ii) A-bar movement to an adjoined position, and (iii) head movement. Argument Shift is not subject to reconstruction effects whereas A-bar movement to an adjoined position is. This theory assumes a highly-articulated IP adapted from Pollock 1989, in particular, the one shown in (1).