Constraints on movement rules
Ray Cattell · Language · 1976
A single derivational constraint is here proposed to account for the same data as Ross's Complex NP, Sentential Subject, and Coördinate Structure Constraints. However, if constraints on derivations are not only to prevent the generation of structurally ill-formed strings, but also to illuminate their ungrammaticality fully, they must be combined with certain conditions on structure. It is claimed that the proposed derivational constraint and structural principles are deeply motivated by the nature of the grammar itself, and that their implications for the theory of innateness are rather different from those normally cited for Ross's constraints.